"'You'?
You and--a--not Chad ?" Of course it was the child's father who made the 'we,' but to the child's father it would have cost him an effort to allude.

Yet didn't it seem the next minute that Monsieur de Vionnet was after all not in question ?--since she had gone on to say that it was indeed to Chad she referred and that he had been in the whole matter kindness itself.
"If I must tell you all, it is he himself who has put us in the way.

I mean in the way of an opportunity that, so far as I can yet see, is all I could possibly have dreamed of.

For all the trouble Monsieur de Vionnet will ever take!" It was the first time she had spoken to him of her husband, and he couldn't have expressed how much more intimate with her it suddenly made him feel.

It wasn't much, in truth--there were other things in what she was saying that were far more; but it was as if, while they stood there together so easily in these cold chambers of the past, the single touch had shown the reach of her confidence.
"But our friend," she asked, "hasn't then told you ?" "He has told me nothing." "Well, it has come with rather a rush--all in a very few days; and hasn't moreover yet taken a form that permits an announcement.