It was Nora who told the innocent fib, and though she did not tell it well, she did her very best.

She felt that her brother-in-law was very wretched, and she was most anxious to relieve him.

Colonel Osborne did not stay long, and then Nora went up-stairs to her sister.
Louis Trevelyan felt that he had disgraced himself.

He had meant to have been strong, and he had, as he knew, been very weak.

He had meant to have acted in a high-minded, honest, manly manner; but circumstances had been so untoward with him, that on looking at his own conduct, it seemed to him to have been mean, and almost false and cowardly.