Archer Dered, I Accepted My Mission in Good Faith

Archer looked up and met his visitor's anxious gaze. Don't you know, monsieur, that the family begin to doubt if they have the right to advise the countess to refuse her husband's last proposals? The young man had evidently resolved to let everything go by the board. M riviere reddened, but his eyes did not falter. He said: "I discharged my mission faithfully" And it was in the course of these two talks that i changed my mind, and i came to see things differently. May i ask what led to this change?