"She will keep me waiting, but she will come out in time," he said to himself, nervous and self-confident by turns, resting his head rather gracefully on his hand.

His knowledge of womankind supported him like a life-belt, but it has been said that life-belts occasionally support their wearers upsidedown.

Theories have been known to exhibit the same spiteful tendency towards those who place their trust in them.
"Of course, she has got to show me that she is offended with me," he reflected, gazing steadily at the Welsh hills.

"She would not have come out if I had asked her, but she will certainly come as I did not.

I will give her half an hour." Rachel, meanwhile, was looking fixedly at Mr.Tristram from her bedroom window with that dispassionate scrutiny to avoid which the vainest would do well to take refuge in noisome caves.
"I wonder," she said to herself, "whether Hester always saw him as I see him now.