I was interested in your case, so I came up to hear your trial.

I was more interested in your trial, but most interested of all in yourself.

There, indeed, the word is too weak; but I will not vex your spirit with a stronger.

My attraction you know; my determination you know; even the low wiles to which your pride reduced me, even my dodging and dogging, have been quite openly admitted to you on the first reasonable opportunity.

All this business of the shipwrecked daughter was of course a crude device enough; but I had very little time to think, and my first care was that you should not be recognized here or elsewhere in my society.