"But enough for what then, dear--if not enough to break her heart ?" "Enough to give her a shaking!" Mrs.Assingham rather oddly replied.

"To give her, I mean, the right one.

The right one won't break her heart.
It will make her," she explained--"well, it will make her, by way of a change, understand one or two things in the world." "But isn't it a pity," the Colonel asked, "that they should happen to be the one or two that will be the most disagreeable to her ?" "Oh, 'disagreeable'-- ?
They'll have had to be disagreeable--to show her a little where she is.

They'll have HAD to be disagreeable to make her sit up.

They'll have had to be disagreeable to make her decide to live." Bob Assingham was now at the window, while his companion slowly revolved; he had lighted a cigarette, for final patience, and he seemed vaguely to "time" her as she moved to and fro.