"You make me feel quite nervous.

What a shocking thing it would be if I ever did anything to forfeit your good opinion." "You couldn't," said Columbine.
"Couldn't!" He repeated the word with an odd inflection.
"It wouldn't be you," she explained with the utmost gravity, as one stating an irrefutable fact.
"Thank you," said Knight.
"Oh, it's not a compliment," she returned.

"It's just the truth.

There are some people--a few people--that one knows one can trust through and through.

And you are one of them, that's all." "Is that so ?" said Knight.