I daresay that you yourself have thought some disagreeable thing or other of me, which would seem just as bad as this if written.

I challenge you, now, to tell me.' 'The worst thing I have thought of you ?' 'Yes.' 'I must not.' 'Oh yes.' 'I thought you were rather round-shouldered.' Knight looked slightly redder.
'And that there was a little bald spot on the top of your head.' 'Heh-heh! Two ineradicable defects,' said Knight, there being a faint ghastliness discernible in his laugh.

'They are much worse in a lady's eye than being thought self-conscious, I suppose.' 'Ah, that's very fine,' she said, too inexperienced to perceive her hit, and hence not quite disposed to forgive his notes.

'You alluded to me in that entry as if I were such a child, too.

Everybody does that.