It does not come into your scheme of things.

It is the only feeling, however, with which I should care to marry, and I am not likely to feel it for anyone again." Lord Valleys felt once more that uncanny sense of insecurity.

Was this true?
And suddenly he felt Yes, it is true! The face before him was the face of one who would burn in his own fire sooner than depart from his standards.

And a sudden sense of the utter seriousness of this dilemma dumbed him.
"I can say no more at the moment," he muttered and got up from the table..