She did not attribute guile to any.

It was the highest satisfaction to her to believe Captain Wentworth not in the least aware of the pain he was occasioning.

There was no triumph, no pitiful triumph in his manner.
He had, probably, never heard, and never thought of any claims of Charles Hayter.

He was only wrong in accepting the attentions (for accepting must be the word) of two young women at once.
After a short struggle, however, Charles Hayter seemed to quit the field.

Three days had passed without his coming once to Uppercross; a most decided change.