To me you have always seemed like a sister, and I have no wish to keep any secret from you, though you receive me so coldly that one would think I had offended you." "You have not offended me.

I thank you for being so frank with me.

You would have gained little by an opposite course.

I have long known your affection for Charlotte." "You guessed my secret ?" "I saw what any one could have seen who had taken the trouble to watch you for ten minutes during your visits to this house." "Was my unhappy state so very conspicuous ?" exclaimed Valentine, laughing.

"Was I so obviously spoony?
_I_ who have so ridiculed anything in the way of sentiment.