The passionate belief in his high and romantic birth was part of his being, and Miss Winwood's recognition was a splendid confirmation of his faith.

It was rather the suppressio veri of which he was guilty than the propositio falsi.

So between them his childhood was invested with a vague semblance of reality in which the fact of his isolation stood out most prominent.
They had many talks together, not only on books and art, but on the social subjects in which Ursula was so deeply interested.

She found him well informed, with a curiously detailed knowledge of the everyday lives of the poor.

It did not occur to her that this knowledge came from his personal experience.