I will confess to you I wrote her a letter whilst I was abroad, and it offended her, I suppose.' 'I don't think you can always judge of her thoughts by her face.' 'Perhaps not.

But I have studied her face so often and so closely.

For all that, she is more a mystery to me than any woman I have ever known.
That, of course, is partly the reason of her power over me.

I feel that if ever--if ever she should disclose herself to me, it would be the strangest revelation.

Every woman wears a mask, except to one man; but Rhoda's--Miss Nunn's--is, I fancy, a far completer disguise than I ever tried to pierce.' Monica had a sense of something perilous in this conversation.