The sentient body, vibrant with bounding life, instinctively prepares itself for the possibility of the ride with you to Warwick.

This gives equal balance to the scale.

But a third factor will be called in, finally to decide the matter.

By that she will abide; and neither you nor I, neither earth nor hell, neither things past, things present, nor things to come, could avail to move her." "And that third factor ?" questioned the Knight.
"Is the Spiritual," replied the Bishop, solemnly, with uplifted face.
"With that, there came over the Knight a sudden sense of compunction.
He began for the first time to see the matter as it must appear to the Bishop and the nun.

His own obstinate and determined self-seeking shamed him.
"You have been very good to me, my lord," he said humbly.