But her logic had in fact its own law, and her next transition was an equal jump.

"It was too lovely, the frankness of your admission a minute ago that I affect him uncannily.

Ah don't spoil it by explanations!" she beautifully pleaded: "he's not the first and he won't be the last with whom I shall not have been what they call a combination.

The only thing that matters is that I mustn't, if possible, make the case worse.

So you must guide me.