"He left me, you know, to do so." "Know--how should I know?
I left her five minutes ago." "Then he went out without seeing her." Mrs.Brook took it in.

"He changed his mind out there on the stairs." "Well," said Edward, "it won't be the first mind that has been changed there.

It's about the only thing a man can change." "Do you refer particularly to MY stairs ?" she asked with her whimsical woe.

But meanwhile she had taken it in.

"Then whom were you speaking of ?" "Mr.Longdon's coming to tea with her.