To take from him, in the way of an assurance so handsomely offered, so much, and then to ask for more: I don't feel I can do it.

Besides, I've my little conviction.

To the question itself he might easily reply that it's none of my business." "I see," Mitchy dropped.

"Such pressure might suggest to him moreover that you're hesitating more than you perhaps really are." "Oh as to THAT" said Vanderbank, "I think he practically knows how much." "And how little ?" He met this, however, with no more form than if it had been a poor joke, so that Mitchy also smoked for a moment in silence.
"It's your coming down here, you mean, for these three or four days, that will have fixed it ?" The question this time was one to which the speaker might have expected an answer, but Vanderbank's only immediate answer was to walk and walk.
"I want so awfully to be kind to her," he at last said.
"I should think so!" Then with irrelevance Mitchy harked back.

"Shall _I_ find out ?" But Vanderbank, with another thought, had lost the thread.