There was but one thing for him;--to persevere till he got her, or till he had finally lost her.

And should the latter be his fate, as he began to fear that it would be, then, he would live, but live only, like a crippled man.
He felt almost sure in his heart of hearts that the girl loved that other younger man.

That she had never owned to such love he was quite sure.

The man himself and Henrietta also had both assured him on this point, and he was a man easily satisfied by words and prone to believe.

But he knew that Paul Montague was attached to her, and that it was Paul's intention to cling to his love.