No doubt it is very stupid of me; I don't deny it.

But as long as I cannot there is no use pretending that I can.

And then of course she feels hurt, for she is very fond of him, and likes to read him aloud in the evenings.

She is reading a piece now `Pippa Passes,' and I assure you, Miss Walker, that I don't even know what the title means.

You must think me a dreadful fool." "But surely he is not so incomprehensible as all that ?" she said, as an attempt at encouragement.
"He is very bad.