Last, that it was plain that there was something between his daughter and this boy, though what that was he had been unable to understand.

Marjorie had flown suddenly from the room just as he was beginning to put his questions.
It is no wonder, then, that his peace of mind was gone.

Not only were large principles once more threatened--considerations of religion and loyalty, but also those small and intimate principles which, so far more than great ones, agitate the mind of the individual.

He did not wish to lose a client; yet neither did he wish to be unfriendly to a young confessor for the faith.

Still less did he wish to lose his daughter, above all to a young man whose prospects seemed to be vanishing.