Please don't be polite--be savage!" and he did his best to comply.
She would not always be convinced; he had to leave some points unvanquished; but in the main she agreed and was grateful.

She would remodel the article, she told him, and she would remember all that he had said.

Cardiff found her recognition of the trouble he had taken delightful; it was nothing, he declared; he hoped very particularly that she would let him be of use, if possible, often again.

He felt an inexplicable jar when she suddenly said, "Did you ever do anything--of this sort--for Janet ?" and he was obliged to reply that he never did--her look of disappointment was so keen.

"She thought," he reflected, "that I hoisted Janet into literature, and could be utilized again perhaps," in which he did her injustice.
But he lingered over his tea, and when he took her hand to bid her good-by he looked down at her and said, "Was I very brutal ?" in a way which amused Her for quite half an hour after he had gone.
Cardiff sent the amended article to the _London Magazine_ with qualms.