She said: "After all, I do know about it, so I can't pretend to him that I don't.

I will give it to him, Corp"; and she put the little package in her pocket with a brave smile.
Do you think the radiance had gone from her face now?
Do you think the joy that had been lit in her heart was dead?
Oh, no, no! Grizel had never asked that Tommy should love her; she had asked only that he should be a fine man.

She did not ask it for herself, only for him.
She could not think of herself now, only of him.

She did not think she loved him.

She thought a woman should not love any man until she knew he wanted her to love him.
But if Tommy had wanted it she would have been very glad.