But Nidderdale's better feelings would not allow him to submit to this advice. He had been engaged to marry the girl, and she in her abject misery had turned to him as the friend she knew best. At any rate for the time the heartlessness of his usual life deserted him, and he felt willing to devote himself to the girl not for what he could get,--but because she had so nearly been so near to him. "I couldn't refuse her," he said over and over again. "I couldn't bring myself to do it. Oh, no;--I shall certainly go."
"You'll get into a mess if you do."

But Nidderdale's better feelings would not allow him to follow this advice. He had been engaged to marry the girl, and she in her misery had turned to him.
"I couldn't refuse her," he said. "I shall go. 