The rest don't interest you." "But--there's the life--" "I don't believe there's a jot more life from Miriam than you could get from any educated girl--say Miss Moreton.

It is YOU who are snobbish about class." She frankly WANTED him to climb into the middle classes, a thing not very difficult, she knew.

And she wanted him in the end to marry a lady.
Now she began to combat him in his restless fretting.

He still kept up his connection with Miriam, could neither break free nor go the whole length of engagement.

And this indecision seemed to bleed him of his energy.