I did n't wish to meet him again." Angela gave this information slowly, softly, with pauses between the sentences, as if she were recalling the circumstances with a certain effort; and meanwhile Bernard, with his transfigured face and his eyes fixed upon her lips, was moving excitedly about the room.
"Well, he can't accuse me, then!" he broke out again.

"If what I said had no more effect upon him than that, I certainly did him no wrong." "I think you are rather vexed he did n't believe you," said Angela.
"I confess I don't understand it.

He had all the air of it.

He certainly had not the air of a man who was going to rush off and give you the last proof of his confidence." "It was not a proof of confidence," said Angela.

"It had nothing to do with me.