He could not understand what his mood had been, what motives had weighed with him.

He had not been conscious of a severe struggle to resist a temptation; the temptation had not, in fact, yet formed itself.

What was her own thought?
She had answered his questions freely, perhaps would have told him without hesitation the address of her lodgings.

Clearly she no longer sought to escape him.

But that, he reminded himself, was only the natural response to his own perfectly calm way of speaking; she could not suggest embarrassments when it was his own cue to show that he felt none.