"Is it?
I should have been the last of men to believe such a thing possible yesterday; and yet to-night I feel as if that girl were destined to be the ruling influence of my future life.

Why is it?
Because she is lovely?
Surely not.

Surely I am not so weak a fool as to be caught by a beautiful face! And yet what else do I know of her?
Absolutely nothing.

She may be the shallowest of living creatures--the most selfish, the falsest, the basest.

No; I do not believe she could ever be false or unworthy.