"I should like to know that I have your full confidence," said he.
"You have got my full confidence," she replied.
"I mean that you should tell me anything that there is to be told." "It was only this, that I had learned to love you before I thought that my love would be returned." "Oh;--was that it ?" said Captain Aylmer, in a tone which seemed to imply something like disappointment.
"Yes, Fred; that was it.

And how could I, under such circumstances, trust myself to be gentle with you, or to look to you for assistance?
How could I guess then all that I know now ?" "Of course you couldn't." "And therefore I was driven to be harsh.

My aunt used to speak to me about it." "I don't wonder at that, for she was very anxious that we should be married." Clara for a moment felt herself to be uncomfortable as she heard these words, half perceiving that they implied some instigation on the part of Mrs.Winterfield.Could it be that Captain Aylmer's offer had been made in obedience to a promise?
"Did you know of her anxiety ?" she asked.
"Well;--yes; that is to say, I guessed it.

It was natural enough that the same idea should come to her and to me too.

Of course, seeing us so much thrown together, she could not but think of our being married as a chance upon the cards." "She used to tell me that I was harsh to you;--abrupt, she called it.
But what could I do?
I'll tell you, Fred, how I first found out that I really cared for you.