Do you still doubt me?
Ah, I see you do!' 'Because somebody has stood nearer to you to-night than I.' 'A fogy like him!--half as old again as either of us! How can you mind him?
What shall I do to show you that I do not for a moment let him come between me and you ?' 'It is not for me to suggest what you should do.

Though what you should permit ME to do is obvious enough.' She dropped her voice: 'You mean, permit you to do really and in earnest what he only seemed to do in the play.' Somerset signified by a look that such had been his thought.
Paula was silent.

'No,' she murmured at last.

'That cannot be.

He did not, nor must you.' It was said none the less decidedly for being spoken low.
'You quite resent such a suggestion: you have a right to.