You will tell no one--me least of all.

Why does one never see you ?" "Why, if I came to see you," said Rowland, deliberating, "it would n't be, it could n't be, for a trivial reason--because I had not been in a month, because I was passing, because I admire you.

It would be because I should have something very particular to say.

I have not come, because I have been slow in making up my mind to say it." "You are simply cruel.

Something particular, in this ocean of inanities?
In common charity, speak!" "I doubt whether you will like it." "Oh, I hope to heaven it 's not a compliment!" "It may be called a compliment to your reasonableness.