He had consoled himself with the notion that it would not be very long before he could speak with her again, and then he might test the power of his new face. He whiled away some hours in pleasant daydreams, imagining all the former easiness between himself and Miss Landon, heightened still further by the charm of his infinitely more attractive appearance.
He soon found that daydreams were all that he was to be permitted, for the present. Wealth and beauty could not buy absolutely anything, he was dismayed to discover, for there appeared to be an endless series of obstacles between him and Miss Landon’s society.
As an unmarried man, he could not converse with an unmarried woman such as Miss Landon without the presence of a suitable chaperon (and he had quickly learned that, whatever Miss
