She did you the honor to think for a while that you might be such a chance.

You were not; so she gathered up her patience and waited a while longer.

At last her occasion came along, and she made her move with her eyes wide open.

I am very sure she had no innocence to lose, but she had all her respectability.

Dubious little damsel as you thought her, she had kept a firm hold of that; nothing could be proved against her, and she was determined not to let her reputation go till she had got her equivalent.
About her equivalent she had high ideas.