Indeed, she even thought it wrong—in the sense of being inconsiderate—to attempt to act upon his feelings at all; her part was to effect some gentle, gradual change in his intellectual perception of poor Morris's character.

的确，她甚至认为完全按照他的感受采取行动是错误的——从轻率的意义上说；她的职责是使他对可怜的莫里斯性格的理智看法发生一些温和而渐进的改变。