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He knew very well the reason why he had not interfered. He had not
interfered because he had wished too much to interfere. The desire had
been strong enough to startle him, to warn him.
An islet! That suggests isolation. Like Hermione, he wished to isolate
Vere, to preserve her as she was in character. He did not know when
the wish had first been consciously in his mind, but he knew that
since he had been consulted by Vere, since she had broken through her
reserve and submitted to him her poems, unveiling for him alone what
was really to her a holy of holies, the wish had enormously increased.
He told himself that Vere was unique, and that he longed to keep her
unique, so that the talent he discerned in her might remain
unaffected. How great her talent was he did not know. He would not
know, perhaps, for a very long time. But it was definite, it was
intimate. It was Vere's talent, no one else's.
He had made up his mind very soon about Hermione's incapacity to
produce work of value.


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