Why should one condemn oneself against conscience?
Maud is perhaps the hardest to get along with.

She has a sort of arrogance, an exaggeration of something I am quite aware of in myself.

You have noticed that trait in me ?' 'Arrogance--I think not.

You have self-confidence.' 'Which goes into extremes now and then.

But, putting myself aside, I feel pretty sure that the girls won't seem quarrelsome to you; they would have to be very fractious indeed before that were possible.' 'We shall continue to be friends, I am sure.' Jasper let his eyes wander about the room.
'This is your father's study ?' 'Yes.' 'Perhaps it would have seemed odd to Mr Yule if I had come in and begun to talk to him about these purely private affairs.