"I am very much mistaken if I do not.

He is determined to leave the field clear for all comers, unless she herself makes some sort of advances to him.

'If she prefers Mayford,' says Sam to himself, 'in the way she appears to, why, she is welcome to him, and I can go home as soon as I am assured of it.' And go home he would, too, and never say one word of complaint to any living soul." "What a clear, brave, honest soul that lad has!" said the Major.
"Truly," said the Doctor, "I only know one man who is his equal." "And who is he ?" "His father.

Good night; good dreams!" * * * * * So Sam kept to his resolution of finding out whether or no Alice was likely to prefer Cecil to him.

And, for all his watching and puzzling, he couldn't.