If she could prove it, both to herself and to him, the rest might go; she could simply trust to the future.
So in May she asked him to come to Willey Farm and meet Mrs.Dawes.
There was something he hankered after.

She saw him, whenever they spoke of Clara Dawes, rouse and get slightly angry.

He said he did not like her.

Yet he was keen to know about her.

Well, he should put himself to the test.