Spare her Ladyship, sir, all the pain and trouble that you can." At last the heart that was in Mr.Troy asserted itself.

"You are a fine creature!" he said, with a burst of enthusiasm.

"I agree with Lady Lydiard--I believe you are innocent, too; and I will leave no effort untried to find the proof of it." He turned aside again, and had another look at the Japanese vase.
As the lawyer withdrew himself from observation, Moody approached Isabel.
Thus far he had stood apart, watching her and listening to her in silence.

Not a look that had crossed her face, not a word that had fallen from her, had escaped him.

Unconsciously on her side, unconsciously on his side, she now wrought on his nature with a purifying and ennobling influence which animated it with a new life.
All that had been selfish and violent in his passion for her left him to return no more.