He had neither bribed nor persuaded her, had given her nothing--scarce even till now articulate thanks; so that her profit-to think of it vulgarly--must have all had to come from the Ververs.
Yet he was far, he could still remind himself, from supposing that she had been grossly remunerated.

He was wholly sure she hadn't; for if there were people who took presents and people who didn't she would be quite on the right side and of the proud class.

Only then, on the other hand, her disinterestedness was rather awful--it implied, that is, such abysses of confidence.

She was admirably attached to Maggie--whose possession of such a friend might moreover quite rank as one of her "assets"; but the great proof of her affection had been in bringing them, with her design, together.

Meeting him during a winter in Rome, meeting him afterwards in Paris, and "liking" him, as she had in time frankly let him know from the first, she had marked him for her young friend's own and had then, unmistakably, presented him in a light.