"I do not like to feel impelled to do anything the reason for which is not apparent.

I like to do just the things which seem likely to work out best for myself." "How you must hate me!" she murmured.
"No, I do not hate you," he replied, "but, on the other hand, you have certainly been a trouble to me.

First of all, I told a falsehood at the boarding-house, and I prefer always to tell the truth when I can.

Then I followed you out of the house, which I disliked doing very much, and I seem to have spent a considerable portion of the time since, in your company, under somewhat extraordinary circumstances.

I do not understand why I have done this." "I suppose it is because you are a very good-hearted person," she remarked.
"But I am not," he assured her, calmly.