He knew something about Bell's household and imagined that Janet's life was not smooth.

He was sorry for her, and it was, of course, unjust to blame her for her father's deeds.
All the same, the favor she had sometimes shown him was embarrassing.

He was not a philanderer, but he was young and she had made him feel that he had played an ungallant part.

Jane was a flirt, but, after all, it would not have cost him much, so to speak, to play up to her.

Perhaps he had acted like a prig.