The result, she was honest enough to own, might have been better--who knows?
She did not disguise from herself that Terence had faults.

She was inclined to think him too easy and tolerant, just as he was inclined to think her perhaps a trifle hard--no, it was rather that she was uncompromising.

In some ways she found St.John preferable; but then, of course, he would never have suited Rachel.

Her friendship with St.John was established, for although she fluctuated between irritation and interest in a way that did credit to the candour of her disposition, she liked his company on the whole.

He took her outside this little world of love and emotion.
He had a grasp of facts.