"Then it's impossible.

It's more than I can afford." "Ah," the man returned, "one can sometimes afford for a present more than one can afford for one's self." He said it so coaxingly that she found herself going on without, as might be said, putting him in his place.

"Oh, of course it would be only for a present--!" "Then it would be a lovely one." "Does one make a present," she asked, "of an object that contains, to one's knowledge, a flaw ?" "Well, if one knows of it one has only to mention it.

The good faith," the man smiled, "is always there." "And leave the person to whom one gives the thing, you mean, to discover it ?" "He wouldn't discover it--if you're speaking of a gentleman." "I'm not speaking of anyone in particular," Charlotte said.
"Well, whoever it might be.

He might know--and he might try.