In fact, he had spoken from the simplest of motives.

The girl beside him pleased him unspeakably, and, suspecting that her charm was essentially her own and not reflected from social circumstance, he wished to give himself the satisfaction of contrasting her with the meagre influences of her education.

Miss Garland's second movement was to take him at his word.

"Since you are free to do as you please, why don't you go there ?" "I am not free to do as I please now.

I have offered your cousin to bear him company to Europe, he has accepted with enthusiasm, and I cannot retract." "Are you going to Europe simply for his sake ?" Rowland hesitated a moment.