Although she bullied and maltreated him at times, yet to herself she always confessed him to be her lord and master.

He was the one male creature for whom she cared in the whole world, indeed, putting her mother out of the question, she cared for no other man or woman, and would never learn to do so.
For hers was a singular and very rare instance of almost undivided affection centred on a single object.

So far as his sex was concerned Godfrey was her all, a position of which any man might well be proud in the case of any woman, and especially of one who had many opportunities of devoting herself to others.

In her example, however, she was not to be thanked, for the reason that she only followed her nature, or perhaps the dictates of that fate which inspires and rules very great love, whether it be between man and woman, between parent and child, between brother and brother, or between friend and friend.

Such feelings do not arise, or grow.