She has been all unexpressed sympathy.

And Drake?
There's the danger, I am sure--a danger not of the usual kind.

Had he been unscrupulous he might have ridden roughshod over Clarice long before now.
But he's too scrupulous for that.

I think that he misses greatness as we understand it, through excess of scruple.

But there's that saying of his about a debt incurred to Clarice by the man caring for her.