"That's exactly why she'll be so perfect for you.

You'll get her away--take her out of her aunt's life." Mitchy met it all now in a sort of spellbound stillness.

"What do you know about her aunt's life ?" "Oh I know everything!" She spoke with her first faint shade of impatience.
It produced for a little a hush between them, at the end of which her companion said with extraordinary gentleness and tenderness: "Dear old Nanda!" Her own silence appeared consciously to continue, and the suggestion of it might have been that for intelligent ears there was nothing to add to the declaration she had just made and which Mitchy sat there taking in as with a new light.

What he drew from it indeed he presently went on to show.

"You're too awfully interesting.