And yet, with unconscious perversity, she was not satisfied.

She allowed to herself that Maurice's conduct had been reasonable enough.

He had accepted the common belief that Christian was the murderer of Dr.
Morton; and the conclusion which naturally followed, that Christian's daughter, beautiful and good though she might be, was not a fit mistress for Hunsdon; to have done otherwise, would have been Quixotic.

Yet in her heart she was bitterly disappointed.

If he had but loved Lucia well enough to dare to take her with all her inherited shame, how richly he would have been rewarded when the cloud cleared away! Where would he find another like her?
And now, since Maurice could change, who might ever be trusted?
No doubt these meditations were romantic.