I began to keep an eye on her and prevent things--or assist them.

It was more fury than benevolence, but it has gone on for years--behind the shut door." "Are you quite sure you have been entirely free from all affection for her ?" The Duchess asked the question impersonally though with a degree of interest.
"I think so.

I am less sure that I have the power to feel what is called 'affection' for any one.

I think that I have felt something nearer it for Donal--and for you--than for any one else.

But when the child talked to me in the wood I felt for the first time that I wished her to know that my relation to her mother was not the reason for her hating me which she had believed." "She shall be made to understand," said the Duchess.
"She must," he said, "_because of the rest_." The last four words were, as it were, italicised.