Then I seemed to sense your plan, your purpose, and from that time on I have trusted you more completely than ever before.

This is confessing a great deal, for it is my nature to be reticent--I have always been hard to become acquainted with." "I have not found you so; I feel as though I had known you always." "That comes from the peculiarity of our first meeting, the unconventional manner in which we were brought together.

I was not my natural self that night, nor have I ever been able since to feel toward you as I have in my relations with other men.

Indeed I have been so frank spoken, so careless of social forms, as to make you question in your own mind my real womanhood." "No; never that!" I protested.
"Oh, but you have," and she laughed softly, a faint trace of bitterness in the sound.

"You need not deny, for I have read the truth in your face, yet without resentment.