I think you're quite right.' 'And oddly enough--as I was trying to tell you just now, only you didn't seem to be listening--a black cat ran across my path only this afternoon.' He smiled, gratified at the recollection.
'How do you mean, your path?
I didn't know you had one--or that there were any paths about here.' 'How literal women are! I mean _I_ nearly ran over it in a taxi.

When I say I nearly ran over it, I mean that a black cat on the same side of the taxi (if you must have details) ran away as the taxi drove on....
Yes, Aylmer is a thoroughly good chap, and he and I have enormous sympathy.

I don't know any man in the world with whom I have more intellectual sympathy than Aylmer Ross.

Do you remember how I pointed him out to you at once at the Mitchells'?
And sometimes when I think how you used to sneer at the Mitchells--oh, you did, you know, dear, before you knew them--and I remember all the trouble I had to get you to go there, I wonder--I simply wonder! Don't you see, through going there, as I advised, we've made one of the nicest friends we ever had.' 'Really, Bruce, you didn't have _any_ trouble to get me to go to the Mitchells; you're forgetting.

The trouble was I couldn't go there very well until I was asked.