I believed that the old love had come back upon you, and again warmed your heart. I thought that it had been cold during our separation, and I was pleased to think so. Was that unnatural? Put yourself in my place, and say if you would not have thought so. I told myself that I understood you then, and I told myself that in all that you had done you had acted as a true, and good, and loving woman. I thought of you much, and I saw that your conduct, as a whole, was intelligible and becoming." The last word grated on Alice's ears, and she showed her anger by the motion of her foot upon the floor. Her cousin noted it all, but went on as though he had not noted it. "But now your present behaviour makes all the rest a riddle. You have said that you would be my wife, declaring thereby that you had forgiven my offences, and, as I suppose, reassuring me of your love; and yet you receive me with all imaginable coldness. 
I believed that the old love had come back to you, and warmed your heart. Was that unnatural? Put yourself in my place, and say if you would not have thought so. I told myself that you had acted as a true, and good, and loving woman. I thought of you much, and I saw that your conduct, as a whole, was intelligible and becoming."
The last word grated on Alice's ears, and she showed her anger by tapping her foot upon the floor. Her cousin noticed it, but went on as though he had not.
"But now your behaviour is a riddle. You have said that you would be my wife, and yet you receive me with coldness. 