You probably know that your lovers have rather a restless time of it.

I can answer for two of them.

You don't know your own mind very well, I imagine, and you like being admired, rather at the expense of the admirer.

Since we are really being frank, I wonder whether I might not say the great word." "You need n't; I know it.

I am a horrible coquette." "No, not a horrible one, since I am making an appeal to your generosity.
I am pretty sure you cannot imagine yourself marrying my friend." "There 's nothing I cannot imagine! That is my trouble." Rowland's brow contracted impatiently.