He had a keen sense of the unreason and contrariness of her whole attitude, but he had no contempt towards her on account of it.

He felt as if he were facing some new system of things, some higher order of creature for whom unreason was the finest reason.

He bowed before the pure, unordered, untempered feminine, and his masculine mind reeled.

And all the time, deeper within himself than he had ever reached with the furthest finger of his emotions, whether for pain or joy, he felt this tenderness, which was like the quickening of another soul, so alive was it.

He felt the wonder and mystery of the awakening of love in his heart, this reaching out with all the best of him for the protection and happiness of another than himself.