I rather think, mam, it's the young gentleman that's stopping at the vicarage." "Oh--ask him to come in." "In 'ere, mam ?" "No--into the sitting-room," said Mrs.Goddard, who was busy in the dining-room.
John was accordingly ushered in and told to wait a minute; which he did, surveying with surprise the beautiful pictures, the rich looking furniture and the valuable objects that lay about upon the tables.

He experienced a thrill of pleasure, for he felt sure that Mrs.Goddard possessed another qualification which he had unconsciously attributed to her--that of being accustomed to a certain kind of luxury, which in John's mind was mysteriously connected with his romance.

It is one of the most undefinable of the many indefinite feelings to which young men in love are subject, especially young men who have been, or are, very poor.
They like to connect ideas of wealth and comfort, even of a luxurious existence, with the object of their affections.

They desire the world of love to be new to them, and in order to be wholly new in their experience, it must be rich.

The feeling is not so wholly unworthy as it might seem; they instinctively place their love upon a pedestal and require its surroundings to be of a better kind than such as they have been accustomed to in their own lives.