If any one ever tells you anything about me, say, for example, that I haven't been perfectly fair with Zoe in every way, and honorable as far as I know how to be, will you withhold belief until you give me a chance?
Do you promise me that ?" And Dorothy stretched her hand to me in a warm-hearted way.

"You are Reverdy's friend, aren't you, and he is yours.

Well, I promise you.

But it isn't necessary, for it would have to be something that I could believe you capable of.

Then Reverdy would have to believe it, and then I might have a mind of my own after all.