To you I have been a little more outspoken than to others." "You have found me an interesting subject for investigation perhaps ?" she asked, looking up suddenly.
"You possess gifts," he admitted calmly, "which one does not find amongst the womenfolk of my country, nor can I say that I have found them to any extent amongst the ladies of the English Court." "Gifts of which you do not approve when possessed by my sex," she suggested.
"You are a law to yourself, Miss Morse," he said.

"What one would not admire in others seems natural enough in you.

You have brains and you have insight.

For that reason I have been with you a little outspoken,--for that reason and another which I think you know of.

You see, my time over here grows nearer to an end with every day.