Also, that he had no right--miserable outcast that he was--to be interested in her; and certainly it would be the wildest insanity to imagine that she could be interested in him.
For what the lightkeeper might say or do, in the event of his secret being discovered, he did not care in the least.

He was long past that point.

And for the breaking of their solemn compact he did not care either.

Seth might or might not have played the traitor; that, too, was a matter of no importance.

Seth himself was of no importance; neither was he.