A bull in council would do nothing." "She 's a remarkable young lady," said Rowland, with bitterness.
But the Cavaliere rose and responded coldly, "She has a great spirit." And it seemed to Rowland that her great spirit, for mysterious reasons, gave him more pleasure than the distressing use she made of it gave him pain.

He was on the point of charging him with his inconsistency, when Giacosa resumed: "But if the marriage can be saved, it must be saved.

It 's a beautiful marriage.

It will be saved." "Notwithstanding Miss Light's great spirit to the contrary ?" "Miss Light, notwithstanding her great spirit, will call Prince Casamassima back." "Heaven grant it!" said Rowland.
"I don't know," said the Cavaliere, solemnly, "that heaven will have much to do with it." Rowland gave him a questioning look, but he laid his finger on his lips.
And with Rowland's promise to present himself on the morrow at Casa Light, he shortly afterwards departed.

He left Rowland revolving many things: Christina's magnanimity, Christina's perversity, Roderick's contingent fortune, Mary Garland's certain trouble, and the Cavaliere's own fine ambiguities.
Rowland's promise to the Cavaliere obliged him to withdraw from an excursion which he had arranged with the two ladies from Northampton.
Before going to Casa Light he repaired in person to Mrs.Hudson's hotel, to make his excuses.
He found Roderick's mother sitting with tearful eyes, staring at an open note that lay in her lap.