She was openly and shamelessly triumphant, and yet all at once Robert ceased to be repelled by it.

Through his insight into the girl's character, he had seemed to gain suddenly a clearer vision for the depths of human love and pity which are beneath the coarse and the common.

When Fanny stood beside her daughter and looked at her, then at Robert, with the reflection of the beautiful young face in her eyes of love, she became at once pathetic and sacred.
"It is all natural," he said to himself as he was going home..