" I was continuing with caution when she struck out vivaciously for immediate assent.
"Obviously! Clearly! You yourself must admit.

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" "But, Mrs.Fyne," I remonstrated, "you forget that I don't know your brother." This argument which was not only sagacious but true, overwhelmingly true, unanswerably true, seemed to surprise her.
I wondered why.

I did not know enough of her brother for the remotest guess at what he might be like.