He was sure that was John's real and ultimate motive, whatever other motive was virtually put in its place.

Mother and brother would agree on that point and he thought of this agreement with a discontent that rapidly became anger.
Then he determined to marry Lucy, and so have a right to her company on land or sea, at home or abroad.
For he argued only from his own passionate desire.

Lucy had never said she loved him, yet he felt sure she did so.

He loved her the moment they met, and he had no doubt Lucy had been affected in the same manner as himself.

He knew her for his own, lost out of his soul-life long ago and suddenly found one afternoon as she stood with her father at the gate of their little garden.