He would see with singular clearness all sides of the incident.

He would not be indignant, or annoyed or embarrassed.

He had had an interest in Robin as a creature representing peculiar loveliness and undefended potentialities.

Sometimes she had felt that this had even verged on a tenderness of which he was himself remotely, if at all, conscious.

Concerning the boy Donal she had realised that he felt something stronger and deeper than any words of his own had at any time expressed.