It seemed to me important.

It has BEEN--it IS important.

I know as I haven't known before the way they feel.

I couldn't in any other way have made so sure of it." "They feel a confidence," the Prince observed.
He had indeed said it for her.

"They feel a confidence." And she proceeded, with lucidity, to the fuller illustration of it; speaking again of the three different moments that, in the course of her wild ramble, had witnessed her return--for curiosity, and even really a little from anxiety--to Eaton Square.