Feud or no feud, Isbel or not, he could not deliberately do it.

And why not?
There was no answer.

Was he not faithless to his father?
He had no hope of ever winning Ellen Jorth.
He did not want the love of a girl of her character.

But he loved her.
And his struggle must be against the insidious and mysterious growth of that passion.

It swayed him already.