If you, on the contrary, thought there was something to be gained by having a little humbug, I was willing to try it! I don't see that the situation is really changed.

Mary Garland is all that she ever was--more than all.

But I don't care for her! I don't care for anything, and I don't find myself inspired to make an exception in her favor.

The only difference is that I don't care now, whether I care for her or not.
Of course, marrying such a useless lout as I am is out of the question for any woman, and I should pay Miss Garland a poor compliment to assume that she is in a hurry to celebrate our nuptials." "Oh, you 're in love!" said Rowland, not very logically.

It must be confessed, at any cost, that this assertion was made for the sole purpose of hearing Roderick deny it.
But it quite failed of its aim.