Do you remember, once you asked me for what reasons I dropped men from my list?
And I told you, because of any falsehood or treachery, any betrayal of trust--and for no other reason.

You remember?
And did you suppose that elemental standard of decency did not include women--even such a woman as I ?" She dropped one arm on the back of his chair and rested her chin on it, staring at space across his shoulders.
"That's how it had to be, you see, when I found that I cared for you.
There was nothing to do but to tell him.

I was quite certain that it was all off; but I found that I didn't know the man.

I knew he was sensitive, but I didn't know he was sensitive to personal ridicule only, and to nothing else in all the world that I can discover.

I--I suppose, from my frankness to him, he has concluded that no ridicule could ever touch him through me.