Then he looked up and asked: "What do you suppose he's been doing ?" "I don't believe he's been doing anything.

It's something that Mr.
Stoller's been doing to him." "I shouldn't infer that from his own words.

What makes you think the trouble is with Stoller ?" "He said--he said yesterday--something about being glad to be through with him, because he disliked him so much he was always afraid of wronging him.

And that proves that now Mr.Stoller has made him believe that he's done wrong, and has worked upon him till he does believe it." "It proves nothing of the kind," said the general, recurring to the note.

After reading it again, he looked keenly at her: "Am I to understand that you have given him the right to suppose you would want to know the worst--or the best of him ?" The girl's eyes fell, and she pushed her knife against her plate.