It had suddenly struck him that, now the rest of the story was out, Corp might tell her about the glove.

Suppose Gavinia showed it to her! Sometimes he had kissed that glove passionately, sometimes pressed his lips upon it with the long tenderness that is less intoxicating but makes you a better man; but now, for the first time, he asked himself bluntly why he had done those things, with the result that he was striding to Corp's house.

It was not only for his own sake that he hurried; let us do him that justice.

It was chiefly to save Grizel the pain of thinking that he whom she had been flouting loved her, as she must think if she heard the story of the glove.

That it could be nothing but pain to her he was boyishly certain, for assuredly this scornful girl wanted none of his love.