He knew the secret of his own love; but he did not know that Katie also had her secret.

He had never dreamt that his faults, among all their ill effects, had paled her cheek, made wan her arm, silenced her voice, and dimmed her eye.
When he had heard Katie cough, he had in nowise connected the hated sound with his own arrest.

He had thought only of his own love.
'Oh! Charley--I know I can trust you,' said Mrs.Woodward.

'I know you are gentle and good.

You will be gentle and good to us, will you not?
you will not make us all wretched ?' Charley declared that he would not willingly do anything to cause pain to any of them.
'No--I am sure you will not.