He could not regard his nature as a whole; he had no understanding for the subtle network of communication between its various parts.

Nay, he told himself that the genuineness and value of his life's work would be increased by a marriage with Adela Waltham; he and she would represent the union of classes--of the wage-earning with the _bourgeois_, between which two lay the real gist of the combat.

He thought of this frequently, and allowed the thought to inspirit him.
To the question of whether Adela would ever find out what he had done, and, if so, with what result, he gave scarcely a moment.

Marriages are not undone by subsequent discovery of moral faults on either side.
This is a tabular exposition of the man's consciousness.

Logically, there should result from it a self-possessed state of mind, bordering on cynicism.