To him she was the most original creature he had ever met, the most natural, the most humorous of temper, the most sincere.

She had no duplicity, no guile, no arts.
He said to himself that he knew his own mind always.

He believed in inspirations, and he would back his knowledge, his inspiration, by an irretrievable move.

Yesterday had come an important message from his commander.

That had decided him.