Vera was not the figure to be loved in that way.

She had never loved a man before; but it seemed to her now that she had known all these sensations always, and that she was now, at last, her real self, and that the earlier Vera had been a ghost.

They did not; and then it struck him that Vera was the very last person to whom Nina would yieldjust because she wanted to yield to her most, which was pretty subtle of him and very near the truth.

Vera is of course the soul of honourbut something had occurred then which made me....