When I saw you coming to meet me half-way--oh, Grizel, tell me that you were doing that ?" "Yes, yes, yes!" she answered eagerly, so that she might not detain him a moment.
"When I saw you I realized that you were willing to forgive me; that you were coming to say so; that no thought of lowering me first was in your mind; that yours was a love above the littleness of ordinary people: and the adorableness of it filled me with a glorious joy; I saw in that moment what woman in her highest development is capable of, and that the noblest is the most womanly." She said "Womanly ?" with a little cry.

It had always been such a sweet word to her, and she thought it could never be hers again! "It is by watching you," he replied, "that I know the meaning of the word.

I thought I knew long ago, but every day you give it a nobler meaning." If she could have believed it! For a second or two she tried to believe it, and then she shook her head.
"How dear of you to think that of me!" she answered.

She looked up at him with exquisite approval in her eyes.

She had always felt that men should have high ideas about women.
"But it was not to save you pain that I came back," she said bravely.
There was something pathetic in the way the truth had always to come out of her.