Then life held but one purpose for him.
Thus, you see that when Dorothy was moaning, "My love, my love," and was kissing the golden heart, she was taking a great deal for granted.
Perhaps, however, she better understood John's feeling for her than did he himself.

A woman's sixth sense, intuition, is a great help to her in such cases.

Perhaps the girl knew with intuitive confidence that her passion was returned; and perhaps at first she found John's receptive mode of wooing sweeter far than an aggressive attack would have been.

It may be also there was more of the serpent's cunning than of reticence in John's conduct.

He knew well the ways of women, and perhaps he realized that if he would allow Dorothy to manage the entire affair she would do his wooing for him much better than he could do it for himself.