Which did he prefer?
It is of all questions the one causing young men to screw wry faces when they are asked; they do so love the feminine, the ultra-feminine, whom they hate for her inclination to the frail.

His depths were sounded, and he answered independently of his will, that he must be up to the heroical pitch to decide.

Carinthia stood near him then.

The confession was a step, and fraught with consequences.

Her unacknowledged influence expedited him to Sarah Winch's shop, for sight of one of earth's honest souls; from whom he had the latest of the two others down in Wales, and of an infant there.
He dined the host of his Ixionides, leaving them early for a drive at night Eastward, and a chat with old Mr.Woodseer over his punching and sewing of his bootleather.