He was humble and meek, filled with self-disparagement and abasement.

In such frame of mind sinners come to the penitent form.

He was convicted of sin.

But as the meek and lowly at the penitent form catch splendid glimpses of their future lordly existence, so did he catch similar glimpses of the state he would gain to by possessing her.

But this possession of her was dim and nebulous and totally different from possession as he had known it.