It's love, not John Ward, which means content.

But you don't have a very high opinion of him ?" "Oh, yes, I have," Lois said quickly; "only he isn't good enough for Helen.

I suppose, though, I'd say that of anybody.

And he irritates me, he is so different from other people.

I don't think I do--adore him!" Gifford did not speak; he took another strand of grass, and began to weave it round and round his little ring, to make it smaller.
"Perhaps I ought not to say that," she added; "of course I wouldn't to any one but you." "You ought not to say it to me, Lois," he said.
"Why?
Isn't it true ?" she said.