I'd thus surround you with an impenetrable legend of conscientious misrepresentation, a circle of pious fraud, and all the while privately keep you for myself." She had listened to him as if he were a band of music and she herself a small shy garden-party.

"I shouldn't like you to go away.

I shouldn't in the least like you not to come again." "Ah there it is!" he replied.

"How can I come again if Addie ruins you ?" "But how will she ruin me--even if she does what you say?
I know I'm too old to change and really much too queer to please in any of the extraordinary ways you speak of.

If it's a question of quizzing me I don't think my cousin, or any one else, will have quite the hand for it that YOU seem to have.