Tavernake gazed at him in blank amazement.
"I don't know much about science," he said.

"It is only lately that I have begun to realize how ignorant I really am.

Your daughter has helped to teach me." The professor sighed heavily.
"A young woman of attainments, sir," he remarked, "of character, too.
Look at the way she carries her head.

That was a trick of her mother's." "Don't you mean to speak to her at all, then ?" Tavernake asked.
"I dare not," the professor replied.

"I am naturally of a truthful disposition, and if Elizabeth were to ask me if I had spoken to her sister, I should give myself away at once.