And yet he was ill at ease as he thought of it all.  He did believe that every word in Montague’s letter was true.  Though he had been very indignant when he met Roger and Mrs Hurtle together on the sands at Lowestoft, he was perfectly convinced that the cause of their coming there had been precisely that which Montague had stated.  It took him two days to think over all this, two days of great discomfort and unhappiness.  After all, why should he be a dog in the manger?  The girl did not care for him,—­looked upon him as an old man to be regarded in a fashion altogether different from that in which she regarded Paul Montague.  He had let his time for love-making go by, and now it behoved him, as a man, to...