It's a fine old place." "I'm sure it is.

I've often--tried--to picture it." "I'll take you there one day to see it." It was out! Ripped from him on the impulse.

How could he take her to see it, if they were not going to meet again after this?
But he had never determined that they were not to meet again; only that he would not bring her to his rooms.

It amounted to the same thing.

He was not the man to let his inclinations fool him.