There are a great many things you don't understand." "I understand my stupidity.

But why, then, do not Charlotte and Mr.
Brand, who, as an elder sister and a clergyman, are free to walk about together, come over and make me wiser by breaking up the unlawful interview into which I have lured you ?" "That is the last thing they would do," said Gertrude.
Felix stared at her a moment, with his lifted eyebrows.

"Je n'y comprends rien!" he exclaimed; then his eyes followed for a while the retreating figures of this critical pair.

"You may say what you please," he declared; "it is evident to me that your sister is not indifferent to her clever companion.

It is agreeable to her to be walking there with him.