Your question isn't worded with all the tact in the world.

Is it so strange that a man should want to kiss me ?" "Well, I don't know"-- Patricia became judicial, scanning the now flushed countenance of Juliana--"I don't see why not.

But what did he do it for ?" "My dear, you'll be honest with me, and never tell; so I'll be honest with you.

I don't know--I really don't know.

But I have an awful suspicion that the creature meant to be kind to me." "He looks like a kind man.