And could it be denied, if he wanted a woman's love just to give him a style?
No, not that, but to make him feel proud of himself.

That was the heart's way of telling him a secret in owning to a weakness.

Within it the one he had thought of forthwith obtained her lodgement.

He discovered this truth, in this roundabout way, and knew it a truth by the warm fireside glow the contemplation of her cast over him.
Dining alone, as he usually had to do, he was astonished to see the earl enter his room.
'Ah, you always make the right choice!' Fleetwood said, and requested him to come to the library when he had done eating.
Gower imagined an accident.

A metallic ring was in the earl's voice.
One further mouthful finished dinner, for Gower was anxious concerning the ladies.