"
There was something passionately positive in the tone in which she
gave him this advice, and he saw a shining candour in her eyes that
helped him to believe her. On the whole he felt reassured, and you
might have perceived it by the manner in which he said, quite eagerly:
"You want simply to travel for two years? I'm quite willing to wait
two years, and you may do what you like in the interval. If that's all
you want, pray say so. I don't want you to be conventional; do I
strike you as conventional myself? Do you want to improve your mind?
Your mind's quite good enough for me; but if it interests you to
wander about a while and see different countries I shall be
delighted to help you in any way in my power."
"You're very generous; that's nothing new to me. The best way to
help me will be to put as many hundred miles of sea between us as
possible."
"One would think you were going to commit some atrocity!" said
Caspar Goodwood.
"Perhaps I am. I wish to be free even to do that if the fancy
takes me."
"Well then," he said slowly, "I'll go home." And he put out his
hand, trying to look contented and confident.
Isabel's confidence in him, however, was greater than any he could
feel in her.
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