"One man puts his selfishness into one thing, and one into another.

It would have utterly marred my comfort to see Miss Garland in low spirits." "But you liked her--you admired her, eh?
So you intimated." "I admire her profoundly." "It was your originality then--to do you justice you have a great deal, of a certain sort--to wish her happiness secured in just that fashion.
Many a man would have liked better himself to make the woman he admired happy, and would have welcomed her low spirits as an opening for sympathy.

You were awfully queer about it." "So be it!" said Rowland.

"The question is, Are you not glad I was queer?
Are you not finding that your affection for Miss Garland has a permanent quality which you rather underestimated ?" "I don't pretend to say.

When she arrived in Rome, I found I did n't care for her, and I honestly proposed that we should have no humbug about it.