Yet with two or three other things that, on his response, followed it, it quite pointed the path, while the tone of it, and her whole attitude, were as far removed as need have been from the truth of her situation.
The abjection that was present to him as of the essence quite failed to peep out, and he soon enough saw that if she was arranging she could be trusted to arrange.

Good--it was all he asked; and all the more that he could admire and like her for it.
The particular appearance she would, as they said, go in for was that of having no account whatever to give him--it would be in fact that of having none to give anybody--of reasons or of motives, of comings or of goings.

She was a charming young woman who had met him before, but she was also a charming young woman with a life of her own.

She would take it high--up, up, up, ever so high.

Well then, he would do the same; no height would be too great for them, not even the dizziest conceivable to a young person so subtle.