Nevertheless I made up my mind to think it over and to question myself narrowly.

I've done so; all these days I've done nothing else.

I don't make mistakes about such things; I'm a very judicious animal.

I don't go off easily, but when I'm touched, it's for life.

It's for life, Miss Archer, it's for life," Lord Warburton repeated in the kindest, tenderest, pleasantest voice Isabel had ever heard, and looking at her with eyes charged with the light of a passion that had sifted itself clear of the baser parts of emotion--the heat, the violence, the unreason--and that burned as steadily as a lamp in a windless place.
By tacit consent, as he talked, they had walked more and more slowly, and at last they stopped and he took her hand.