She felt her heart swell at the realization that she had changed him, made him kinder, made him divide his love as did her father, made him human, hopeful, longing for a future unfettered by the toils of desert allurement.

She could not control her pride.

She must like him very much.

She confessed that, honestly, without a qualm.

It was only bewildering moments of strange agitation and uncertainty that bothered her.