"It will amuse you." There was nothing crude in this rejoinder; it had been thoroughly well considered.
"If you say that, you know, I believe it," said Osmond, coming toward her.

"There are some points in which my confidence in you is complete.
I'm perfectly aware, for instance, that you know good society from bad." "Society is all bad." "Pardon me.

That isn't--the knowledge I impute to you--a common sort of wisdom.

You've gained it in the right way--experimentally; you've compared an immense number of more or less impossible people with each other." "Well, I invite you to profit by my knowledge." "To profit?
Are you very sure that I shall ?" "It's what I hope.

It will depend on yourself.