She made me realize, as I had never realized before, what it is to have, at one and the same time, the blessing of imagination, and the curse of blindness.

For a moment, I was absorbed in my admiration and my love for her.

For a moment, I forgot the terrible position in which we were all placed.

She unconsciously recalled it to me when she spoke next.
"Perhaps I was wrong to force the truth out of Oscar ?" she said, putting her arm again in mine, and walking on.

"I might have reconciled myself to his brother, if I had never known what his brother was like.