With whom could HE talk of such things ?--unless indeed always, at almost any stage, with Maria?
He foresaw that Miss Gostrey would come again into requisition on the morrow; though it wasn't to be denied that he was already a little afraid of her "What on earth--that's what I want to know now--had you then supposed ?" He recognised at last that he had really been trying all along to suppose nothing.

Verily, verily, his labour had been lost.

He found himself supposing innumerable and wonderful things..