But there was something about the fearless lift to Charlotte's head and the clear regard of her dark eyes which separated her from the others.

She bloomed by herself, individual, marked by her own characteristics.

He thought of her passionate assertion of the principles of her home training with pity and worshipful admiration.

It was innocence incarnate pleading for guilt which she believed like herself, because of the blinding power of her own light.

"She thinks them all like herself," he said to himself.
"She reasons from her knowledge of herself." Then reflecting how Carroll had undoubtedly sent his son to return his pilfered sweets, he began to wonder if he could possibly have been mistaken in his estimate of the man's character, if he had reasoned from wrong premises, and from that circumstantial evidence which his experience as a lawyer should have led him to distrust.
Suddenly a shadow flung out across the office floor and a man stood in the doorway.