I fear we have seen the last of her."-- "And there was I," he said to himself, "for the first time in my life, actually beginning to fancy I had perhaps thrown salt upon the tail of that rare bird, an honest woman! The devil has had quite as much to do with my history as with my character! Perhaps that will be taken into the account one day." But Mary lay awake at night, and thought of many things she might have said and done better when she was with Hesper, and would gladly have given herself another chance; but she could no longer flatter herself she would ever be of any real good to her.

She believed there was more hope of Mr.Redmain even.

For had she not once, for one brief moment, seen him look a trifle ashamed of himself?
while Hesper was and remained, so far as she could judge, altogether satisfied with herself.
Equal to her own demands upon herself, there was nothing in her to begin with--no soil to work upon..