It might perhaps frankly have been mentioned as on the whole her finest.
"Don't you think it possible that if you once get the point of view of realising that I KNOW-- ?" She held the note so long that he at last supplied a sound.

"That you know what ?" "Why that compared with her I'm a poor creeping thing.

I mean"-- she hastened to forestall any protest of mere decency that would spoil her idea--"that of course I ache in every limb with the certainty of my dreadful difference.

It isn't as if I DIDN'T know it, don't you see?
There it is as a matter of course: I've helplessly but finally and completely accepted it.

Won't THAT help you ?" she so ingeniously pleaded.