He assumed no superiority.

He demanded her assent to truths, not because they were his opinions, but simply for the truth's sake; and on all points which touched the heart he looked up to her as infallible and inspired.

In questions of morality, of taste, of feeling, he listened not as a lover to his mistress, but rather as a baby to its mother; and thus, half unconsciously to himself, he taught her where her true kingdom lay,- -that the heart, and not the brain, enshrines the priceless pearl of womanhood, the oracular jewel, the 'Urim and Thummim,' before which gross man can only inquire and adore.
And, in the meantime, a change was passing upon Lancelot.

His morbid vanity--that brawl-begotten child of struggling self-conceit and self-disgust--was vanishing away; and as Mr.Tennyson says in one of those priceless idyls of his, before which the shade of Theocritus must hide his diminished head,-- 'He was altered, and began To move about the house with joy, And with the certain step of man.' He had, at last, found one person who could appreciate him.

And in deliberate confidence he set to work to conquer her, and make her his own.