half-willing

Updated: May 7, 2025

How much I seem to have written about Count Fosco! And what does it all amount to? as poor, dear Mr. Gilmore would ask, in his impenetrable business-like way I can only repeat that I do assuredly feel, even on this short acquaintance, a strange, half-willing, half-unwilling liking for the Count.

Wilkie Collins - The Woman in White