on the highway to the solidest kind of union:'-- Yes, he wrote: 'I leave you to...' And Captain Philip showed her the letter: She perceived motives beginning to stir.

He must have had his intention: and now as to his character!--Jane was of the order of young women possessing active minds instead of figured paste-board fronts, who see what there is to be seen about them and know what may be known instead of decorously waiting for the astonishment of revelations.

As soon as she had asked herself the nature of the design of so honourable a man as Captain Philip in showing her his cousin's letter, her blood spun round and round, waving the reply as a torch; and the question of his character confirmed it.
But could he be imagined seeking to put her on her guard?
There may be modesty in men well aware of their personal attractions: they can credit individual women with powers of resistance.

He was not vain to the degree which stupefies the sense of there being weight or wisdom in others.

And he was honour's own.