But his grief extended even beyond that.  Though he was never tired of swearing to himself that he would not forgive Paul Montague, yet there was present to him a feeling that an injury was being done to the man, and that he was in some sort responsible for that injury.  He had declined to tell Hetta any part of the story about Mrs Hurtle,—­actuated by a feeling that he ought not to betray the trust put in him by a man who was at the time his friend; and he had told nothing.  But no one knew so well as he did the fact that all the attention latterly given by Paul to the American woman had by no means been the effect of love, but had come from a feeling on Paul’s part that he could not desert...