There is--if you like--the possibility of self-deception.

Perhaps I am misled by egregious conceit.

Well, it is honest conceit, and, as it tends to my happiness, I don't pray to be delivered from it." Constance smiled.
"This is very interesting, Mr.Lashmar.But why do you honour me with such confidence ?" "Because I think you and I are capable of understanding each other, which is a rare thing between man and woman.

I want you as a supporter of my views, and, if I succeed in that, I hope you will become a supporter of my ambitions." "What are they, just now ?" "Your letter contained a suggestion; whether you intended it or not, I don't know.

Why shouldn't I be the man Lady Ogram is looking for--the future Liberal member for Hollingford ?" His companion gazed at a far point of the landscape.
"That is perhaps not an impossible thing," she said, meditatively.
"More unlikely things have come to pass." "Then it does seem to you unlikely ?" "I think we won't discuss it just now .-- You see, from here, the plan of the gardens and the park.