"If everything's so all right what is there to make up for ?" "Why, if I did do either of them, by any chance, a wrong.

If I made a mistake." "You'll make up for it by making another ?" And then as she again took her time: "I thought your whole point is just that you're sure." "One can never be ideally sure of anything.

There are always possibilities." "Then, if we can but strike so wild, why keep meddling ?" It made her again look at him.

"Where would you have been, my dear, if I hadn't meddled with YOU ?" "Ah, that wasn't meddling--I was your own.

I was your own," said the Colonel, "from the moment I didn't object." "Well, these people won't object.