Exulting indeed he was but it was a special sort of exultation which seemed to take him by the throat like an enemy.
Anthony's last words to Flora referred to the registry office where they were married ten days later.

During that time Anthony saw no one or anything, though he went about restlessly, here and there, amongst men and things.

This special state is peculiar to common lovers, who are known to have no eyes for anything except for the contemplation, actual or inward, of one human form which for them contains the soul of the whole world in all its beauty, perfection, variety and infinity.

It must be extremely pleasant.

But felicity was denied to Roderick Anthony's contemplation.