I don't know why I imagined Captain Anthony as the sort of man who would not be likely to take the initiative; not perhaps from indifference but from that peculiar timidity before women which often enough is found in conjunction with chivalrous instincts, with a great need for affection and great stability of feelings.

Such men are easily moved.

At the least encouragement they go forward with the eagerness, with the recklessness of starvation.

This accounted for the suddenness of the affair.

No! With all her inexperience this girl could not have found any great difficulty in her conquering enterprise.
She must have begun it.