She nodded.
"Thank you," she said.

"That is a quotation, but it was clever of you to think of it.

Yes, considering the late unpleasantness, I was afraid my visit might be misunderstood.

I was fearful that your mother or--someone--might think I came there with an ulterior motive, something connected with that troublesome Lane dispute.

Of course no one did think such a thing ?" She asked the question quickly and with intense seriousness.