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. She made no reply to Mr. Goodwood; but
at the end of three days she wrote to Lord Warburton, and the letter
belongs to our history.
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