I did not know even that she liked me and yet I felt no doubt nor confusion.

It was, perhaps, that I was ready to accept this new influence under any conditions, was ready for once to leave the rules to another.

I felt no curiosity, knew no determination to discover the conditions of her life that I might bend them to my own purposes.

I was quite passive, untroubled, and of a marvellous, almost selfish happiness.
"Our friendship continued very easily.

It soon came to our meeting every day.