"Only I didn't anticipate quite that kind of origin for her." "And you think an inch or two less of her now." There was a little tremor in Winterborne's voice as he spoke.
"Well," said the doctor, with recovered warmth, "I am not so sure that I think less of her.

At first it was a sort of blow; but, dammy! I'll stick up for her.

She's charming, every inch of her!" "So she is," said Winterborne, "but not to me." From this ambiguous expression of the reticent woodlander's, Dr.
Fitzpiers inferred that Giles disliked Miss Melbury because of some haughtiness in her bearing towards him, and had, on that account, withheld her name.

The supposition did not tend to diminish his admiration for her..