"How you will relish the situation when Emily tells you that he is like you, I can't be as sure as I should be of myself under the same circumstances." Walderhurst applied his monocle and gazed for some moments at the object before him.

He had not known that men experienced these curiously unexplainable emotions at such times.

He kept a strong hold on himself.
"Would you like to hold him ?" inquired Lady Maria.

She was conscious of a benevolent effort to restrain the irony in her voice.
Lord Walderhurst made a slight movement backward.
"I--I should not know how," he said, and then felt angry at himself.

He desired to take the thing in his arms.