'I wanted to see you once before...

if it was true.

It would have made a change in my life-a gap.' 'You do me the honour to like my Sunday evenings ?' 'Beyond everything London can offer.' 'A letter would have reached me.' 'I should have had to wait for the answer.

There is no truth in it ?' Her choice was to treat the direct assailant frankly or imperil her defence by the ordinary feminine evolutions, which might be taken for inviting: poor pranks always.
'There have been overtures,' she said.
'Forgive me; I have scarcely the right to ask...

speak of it!' 'My friends may use their right to take an interest in my fortunes.' 'I thought I might, on my way to Paris, turn aside...