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What makes the pale criminal pale? Not the deed but the thought of the deed.
The ironic outcome of Emma's efforts to save Cabell by showing him how much he would gain if he sent Gursey away was that, after having determined to do so, he now changed his mind. How woefully Emma had misunderstood him when she thought it a sign of weakness that he put things off and off till their accumulated effects forced him to act! Just that was his resource against the paralysis of thought. Unfortunately, he knew that Gursey had the money. There was really no getting away from that, although he would have tried to deceive himself up to the last by giving Gursey a few hundred pounds when he turned him out. In forcing him to see it, Emma laid bare his doubts of McGovern.