She
did him the justice to recognise that if he was not quite honest with
himself he was at least wholly honest with HER. She reckoned up
everything he had been since he joined them, and put upon it all an
interpretation so favourable to his devotion that, catching herself
in the act of glossing over one or two episodes that had not struck
her at the time as disinterested she exclaimed, beneath her breath,
"Look out--you're falling in love!" But if he liked correctness
wasn't he quite right? Could any one possibly like it more than SHE
did? And if he had protested against her throwing in her lot with
her mother, this was not because of the benefit conferred but because
of the injury received. He exaggerated that injury, but this was the
privilege of a lover perfectly willing to be selfish on behalf of his
mistress. He might have wanted her grandmother's money for her, but
if he had given her up on first discovering that she was throwing
away her chance of it (oh, this was HER doing too!) he had given up
her grandmother as much: not keeping well with the old woman, as
some men would have done; not waiting to see how the perverse
experiment would turn out and appeasing her, if it should promise
tolerably, with a view to future operations.
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