Miss Niphet.. Love affairs are under influences too capricious for the calculation of probabilities.
Mr. Falconer. Yet I should be very glad to hear your opinion. You know them both so well.
Miss Niphet. I am disposed to indulge you, because I think it is not mere curiosity that makes you ask the question, Otherwise I should not be inclined to answer it, I do not think he will ever be the affianced lover of Morgana. Perhaps he might have been if he had persevered as he began. But he has been used to smiling audiences. He did not find the exact reciprocity he looked for. He fancied that it was, or would be, for another, I believe he was right.
Mr. Falconer. Yet you think he might have succeeded if he had persevered.
Miss Niphet. I can scarcely think otherwise, seeing how much he has to recommend him.
Mr. Falconer. But he has not withdrawn.
Miss Nipket. No, and will not. But she is too high-minded to hold him to a proposal not followed up as it commenced even if she had not turned her thoughts elsewhere.
Mr. Falconer. Do you not think she could recall him to his first ardour if she exerted all her fascinations for the purpose?
Miss Nipket. It may be so. I do not think she will try. (She added, to herself:) I do not think she would succeed.
Mr. Falconer did not feel sure she would not try: he thought he saw symptoms of her already doing so. In his opinion Morgana was, and must be, irresistible. But as he had thought his fair neighbour somewhat interested in the subject, he wondered at the apparent impassiveness with which she replied to his questions.