Are you quite certain that I know it ?" With what intensity, with what significance in my eyes, I may have said them, I know not.

I repeat that I had a subconsciousness, almost uncanny, that we were souls rather than men, talking to each other.

He sat down once more, drawing the chair to the table and resting his elbow on it.
"My record," said he.

"What about it ?" Again please understand that I felt I had the man's soul naked before me.

An imponderable hand plucked away my garments of convention.
"Some time ago," said I, "you spoke of my attitude towards you being marked by a certain reserve.