[Confidence by Henry James]@TWC D-Link bookConfidence CHAPTER XXIII 9/20
But I shall come back to-morrow." "I am greatly obliged to you for what you have said.
Such a speech as that deserves to be listened to with consideration.
You may come back to-morrow," Angela added. On the morrow, when he came back, she received him alone. "How did you know, at Baden, that I did n't like you ?" he asked, as soon as she would allow him. She smiled, very gently. "You assured me yesterday that you did like me." "I mean that I supposed I did n't.
How did you know that ?" "I can only say that I observed." "You must have observed very closely, for, superficially, I rather had the air of admiring you," said Bernard. "It was very superficial." "You don't mean that; for, after all, that is just what my admiration, my interest in you, were not.
They were deep, they were latent.
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