'What a comfort! Really conscientious?
Then he's not--but of course he can't be, if he's really conscientious.

Well, I shall be quite happy in my opinion of him, from this time.

You can't think how it elevates him in my opinion, to know for certain that he's really conscientious!' Her own views of every question, and her correction of everything that was said to which she was opposed, Miss Dartle insinuated in the same way: sometimes, I could not conceal from myself, with great power, though in contradiction even of Steerforth.

An instance happened before dinner was done.

Mrs.Steerforth speaking to me about my intention of going down into Suffolk, I said at hazard how glad I should be, if Steerforth would only go there with me; and explaining to him that I was going to see my old nurse, and Mr.Peggotty's family, I reminded him of the boatman whom he had seen at school.
'Oh! That bluff fellow!' said Steerforth.