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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from Malbone: An Oldport Romance by Thomas Wentworth Higginson: could he justify himself to her when he did not really know
himself? So he merely said, "Yes."
"She is your sister," he added, in an explanatory tone, after a
pause; and despised himself for the subterfuge. It is amazing
how long a man may be false in action before he ceases to
shrink from being false in words.
"Philip," said the unsuspecting Hope, "I knew that you cared
about her. I have seen you look at her with so much affection;
and then again I have seen you look cold and almost stern. She
notices it, I am sure she does, this changeableness. But this
is not why I ask the question. I think you must have seen
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