I thought of you chiefly because I feel more at home with you than with anyone else.

It has always seemed to me that you see me exactly as I am, with all the pretenses and meannesses--yet not unkindly, either.

And, while you've made me angry sometimes, when you have refused to be taken in by my best tricks, still it was as one gets angry with--with oneself.

It simply wouldn't last.
And, as you see, I tell you anything and everything." "You thought you'd engage yourself to me--and see how it worked out ?" "I'm afraid I did." A pause.

She knew what he was going to say next, and waited for him to say it.