It would perhaps have made him look better.
But as you never attacked him for deserting me, it seemed needless for me to defend him." "I confess," said Bernard, "I am quite at sea about Gordon's look in the matter.

Is he looking better now--or is he looking worse?
You put it very well just now; I was attending to you, though you said I was not.
If he hoped you would refuse him, with whom is his quarrel at present?
And why was he so cool to me for months after we parted at Baden?
If that was his state of mind, why should he accuse me of inconsistency ?" "There is something in it, after all, that a woman can understand.

I don't know whether a man can.

He hoped I would refuse him, and yet when I had done so he was vexed.

After a while his vexation subsided, and he married poor Blanche; but, on learning to-day that I had accepted you, it flickered up again.