Be it so: perhaps there were excuses for him (as there are for many men) of which we know nothing.
Elsley, meanwhile, watched Campbell with fast lowering brow.

Losing a woman's affections?
He who does so deserves his fate.

Had he been in the habit of paying proper attention to Lucia, he would have liked Campbell all the more for his conduct.

There are few greater pleasures to a man who is what he should be to his wife, than to see other men admiring what he admires, and trying to rival him where he knows that he can have no rival.

Let them worship as much as they will.