I have no motive for leading you astray in the matter.

However things were, I would tell you frankly." There was another silence.
"Do you think there is anything like confidence between your wife and her ?" Waymark asked.
"That I hardly know.

When I am present, of course they only talk about ordinary women's interests, household affairs, and so on." "Then you have no means of--well, of knowing whether she has spoken about me to your wife in any particular way ?" "Nothing of the kind has ever been hinted to me" "Waymark," Julian continued, after a pause, "you are a strange fellow." "In what respect." "Do you mean to tell me honestly that--that you--" "Well ?--you mean to say, that I am not in love with the girl ?" "No, I wasn't going to say that," said Julian, with his usual bashfulness, heightened in this case by some feeling which made him pale.

"I meant, do you really believe that _she_ has no kind of regard for you beyond mere friendship ?" "Why?
Have you formed any conclusions of your own on the point ?" "How could I help doing so ?" "And you look on me," said Waymark, after thinking for a moment, "as an insensible dog, with a treasure thrown at his feet which he is quite incapable of appreciating or making use of ?" "No.

I only feel that your position must be a very difficult one.