(...) he turned to go his own way, and hardly knew he loved her still. - Thomas Hardy

Love, though added emotion, is substracted capacity

but she remained more or less and ideal character, about whose form he began to weave curious and fantastic day-dreams.

She showed that oblique-mannered softness which is perhaps more frequent in women of darker complexion and more lymphatic temperament than Mrs. Charmond’s was; women who lingeringly smile their meanings to men rather than speak to them, who inveigle rather than prompt, and take advantage of currents rather than steer.