And yet he was of supremely strong, clean make--which was so much she saw the different fitted parts of him as she had seen, in museums and portraits, the different fitted parts of armoured warriors--in plates of steel handsomely inlaid with gold.

It was very strange: where, ever, was any tangible link between her impression and her act?
Caspar Goodwood had never corresponded to her idea of a delightful person, and she supposed that this was why he left her so harshly critical.

When, however, Lord Warburton, who not only did correspond with it, but gave an extension to the term, appealed to her approval, she found herself still unsatisfied.
It was certainly strange.
The sense of her incoherence was not a help to answering Mr.Goodwood's letter, and Isabel determined to leave it a while unhonoured.

If he had determined to persecute her he must take the consequences; foremost among which was his being left to perceive how little it charmed her that he should come down to Gardencourt.

She was already liable to the incursions of one suitor at this place, and though it might be pleasant to be appreciated in opposite quarters there was a kind of grossness in entertaining two such passionate pleaders at once, even in a case where the entertainment should consist of dismissing them.