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At Cambridge, of course, I should inevitably become the most important man in the place, but there are other reasons why I dread Cambridge--" he ceased.
"Are you finding me a dreadful bore ?" he asked.

He changed curiously from a friend confiding in a friend to a conventional young man at a party.
"Not in the least," said Helen.

"I like it very much." "You can't think," he exclaimed, speaking almost with emotion, "what a difference it makes finding someone to talk to! Directly I saw you I felt you might possibly understand me.

I'm very fond of Hewet, but he hasn't the remotest idea what I'm like.