He may be an adventurer, but he is not a mean one.
Rosamond Tallant thinks it much more likely that because I didn't introduce him to Aunt Eliza, and Chris and Molly never asked him to dinner, he got the idea that I considered him good enough to amuse myself with, but not good enough for serious consideration as a husband.

And it's quite true that I always shirked that point when it was touched upon.

If I must be perfectly honest with myself, I think I was afraid of his putting me at the cannon's mouth and telling me I must decide then and there to take him or leave him.

Should I ever have had the strength to give him up?
He's so frightfully dear to me, that I can't think of him now without a shudder at the thought of his belonging to another woman.

I never really believed it would come to that.