But----" He waited.
"Well, I was going to say that there's no use in our thinking much about each other." "I don't ask you to think of me.

But I shall think a great deal about you for long enough to come." "That's what I want to prevent." "Why ?" "Because, in the end, it might be troublesome to me." Hilliard kept silence awhile, then laughed.

When he spoke again, it was of things indifferent natures..