Your part is to draw upon all the manliness you own, to have faith in yourself, and to wait.

Have faith in her, too; there are few like her; some day you will see that this only made her better worth winning .-- Now answer me a question.' Wilfrid raised his head.
'Do you not in your heart believe that she is incapable of folly or wrongheadedness ?' 'I believe that no truer woman lives.' 'And rightly, be sure of it.

Believing that, you know she cannot break her word to you without some reason which you would yourself say was good and sufficient.

She imagines she has such a reason; imagines it in all sincerity.

Time will show her that she has been in error, and she will confess it.