You don't allow in particular for the human weakness that enjoys an occasional glimpse of the weakness of others." She had deeply attended to him.

"You mean perhaps one doesn't show enough what one wants ?" "I think that must be it.

You're so fiendishly proud." She appeared again to wonder.

"Not too much so, at any rate, only to want from YOU--" "Well, what ?" "Why, what's pleasant for yourself," she simply said.
"Oh dear, that's poor bliss!" he returned.

"How does it come then," he next said, "that with this barrenness of our intercourse I know so well YOUR hand ?" A series of announcements had meanwhile been made, with guests arriving to match them, and Nanda's eyes at this moment engaged themselves with Mr.Longdon and her mother, who entered the room together.