But so it was.

After her first struggles came a lull, and then an idea.

Why should she not enjoy his society while she could?
He had been thrown into her way through no wish of hers.

She had no desire to wean him from Bessie; or, if she had the desire, it was one which she was far too honourable a woman to entertain.

He was perfectly innocent of the whole story; to him she was the young lady who happened to be the sister of the woman he was going to marry, that was all.