I don't fear it." "What then do you ?" "Nothing--now." And he leaned back in his chair.
"I like your 'now'!" she laughed across at him.
"Well, it's precisely that it fully comes to me at present that I've kept you long enough.

I know by this time, at any rate, what I meant by my speech; and I really knew it the night of Chad's dinner." "Then why didn't you tell me ?" "Because it was difficult at the moment.

I had already at that moment done something for you, in the sense of what I had said the day I went to see you; but I wasn't then sure of the importance I might represent this as having." She was all eagerness.

"And you're sure now ?" "Yes; I see that, practically, I've done for you--had done for you when you put me your question--all that it's as yet possible to me to do.

I feel now," he went on, "that it may go further than I thought.