She was the poor woman who----" "Did not, I am certain, Lady Bonington." The tone of his voice had made someone laugh uneasily; the subject was changed.
All divorce was against his convictions, but in a blurred way he admitted that there were cases where release was unavoidable.

He was not a man to ask for confidences, or expect them to be given him.

He himself had never confided his spiritual struggles to any living creature; and the unspiritual struggle had little interest for Miltoun.

He was ready at any moment to stake his life on the perfection of the idol he had set up within his soul, as simply and straightforwardly as he would have placed his body in front of her to shield her from harm.
The same fanaticism, which looked on his passion as a flower by itself, entirely apart from its suitability to the social garden, was also the driving force which sent him up to London to declare his intention to his father before he spoke to Mrs.Noel.The thing should be done simply, and in right order.

For he had the kind of moral courage found in those who live retired within the shell of their own aspirations.