He meant nothing to her.

Her world was complete without him.

He possessed her daughter's love,--and all the love she would ever know perhaps,--but even that did not produce within her the slightest qualm.

Doubtless Anne would go on loving him to the end of her days.

It is the prerogative of women who do not marry for love; it is their right to love the men they do not marry provided they honour the men they do, and keep their skirts clear besides.
Mrs.Tresslyn felt, and honestly too, that her own assurances that Anne loved him would be quite as satisfactory as if Anne were to utter them herself.