Some happiness may remain to human beings in that world which is on the hither side of London drawing rooms; and it would be his aim in life to see that she had all the happiness that the world could give her.
Pah! He felt his sentiment becoming a trifle brackish.

He loved her, and she loved him.

That was more than all the laws and the profits of society to them.

That was the beginning and the end of the whole matter--the origin of the sin (people called it a sin) and the exculpation of the sinners.

There was nothing more to be said or thought about the matter.