Alice did not quite understand him, and perhaps he did not intend that she should. Perhaps his object was to mystify her imagination. She did not understand him, but I fear that she admired the kind of courage which he professed. And he had not only professed it: in that matter of the past election he had certainly practised it.

Alice did not quite understand him, and perhaps he intended to mystify her. I fear that she admired the kind of courage which he professed.
