But she was aware that it was not an irremediable defect, and that the new life he was leading was very apt to rectify it.

He was filled with culture; what he needed was a few more of life's facts.
And she liked him for himself, which is quite different from liking the parts which went to compose him.

For it is no miracle for two things, added together, to produce not only the sum of themselves, but a third thing which is not to be found in either of them.

So with him.

She liked him for himself, for that something which refused to stand out as a part, or a sum of parts; for that something which is the corner-stone of Faith and which has ever baffled Philosophy and Science.