If you had thought me horrid, had refused to come, I should, naturally, have been immensely 'sold.' I had to take the risk.

Well, you're all I could have hoped.
That's what I was to have said.

I didn't want simply to get my time with you, but I wanted you to know.

I wanted you"-- she kept it up, slowly, softly, with a small tremor of voice, but without the least failure of sense or sequence--"I wanted you to understand.

I wanted you, that is, to hear.