I have told you everything now; and if you choose to say again that I am fighting under false colours I will leave the castle before you can see me again." "Mr Crosbie!" "Now you know it all, and may imagine whether or no I am very happy.
I think you said it was time to dress;--suppose we go ?" And without further speech the two went off to their separate rooms.
Crosbie, as soon as he was alone in his chamber, sat himself down in his arm-chair, and went to work striving to make up his mind as to his future conduct.

It must not be supposed that the declaration just made by him had been produced solely by his difficulty at the moment.
The atmosphere of Courcy Castle had been at work upon him for the last week past.

And every word that he had heard, and every word that he had spoken, had tended to destroy all that was good and true within him, and to foster all that was selfish and false.

He had said to himself a dozen times during that week that he never could be happy with Lily Dale, and that he never could make her happy.

And then he had used the old sophistry in his endeavour to teach himself that it was right to do that which he wished to do.