"What I've never made out, if you come to that, is what you think--I mean you personally--of HER.
Don't you so much, when all's said, as care a little ?" "That," he answered with no loss of promptness, "is what even Chad himself asked me last night.

He asked me if I don't mind the loss--well, the loss of an opulent future.

Which moreover," he hastened to add, "was a perfectly natural question." "I call your attention, all the same," said Miss Gostrey, "to the fact that I don't ask it.

What I venture to ask is whether it's to Mrs.
Newsome herself that you're indifferent." "I haven't been so"-- he spoke with all assurance.

"I've been the very opposite.