It's true enough that I was engaged to her sister, but it was broken off before I knew you, and for the reasons she says here.

I'm not going to talk to you about things of that kind; I dare say you wouldn't care to hear them.

Of course she says I made it all up.

Do you think I'm the kind of man to do that ?' Perhaps she did not know that she was gazing at him.

The question interrupted her in a train of thought which was going on in her mind even while she listened.