"Besides, it's all, at the worst, great fun." "Oh, if you simply put it at THAT--!" His implication was that in this case they had a common ground; yet even thus he couldn't catch her by it.

"Oh, I don't mean," she said from the threshold, "the fun that you mean.

Good-night." In answer to which, as he turned out the electric light, he gave an odd, short groan, almost a grunt.

He HAD apparently meant some particular kind.
V "Well, now I must tell you, for I want to be absolutely honest." So Charlotte spoke, a little ominously, after they had got into the Park.
"I don't want to pretend, and I can't pretend a moment longer.

You may think of me what you will, but I don't care.