If you don't understand now, then I can't make it much plainer, I'm afraid." The little lady sprang to her feet.
"Oh, you are provoking!" she cried indignantly.

"Can't you see that I want to hear the reasons from you yourself?
Cap'n Whittaker, I shook hands with you last night." "You remember I told you you'd better wait." "I didn't want to wait.

I believed I knew something of human nature, and I believed I had learned to understand you.

I made up my mind to pay no more attention to what people said against you.

I thought they were envious and disliked you because you did things in your own way.