It doesn't matter; the thought was in me--and out it came.
"'I think you have some burden on your mind,' I went on.

'If I can't relieve you of it, perhaps I can help you bear it.

Come! tell me what it is.' I waited; but it was of no use--she never even looked at me.
Because I am in love myself, do I think everybody else is like me?
I thought she blushed.

I don't know what else I thought.

'Are you in love ?' I asked.
"She jumped up from her chair, so suddenly and so violently that she threw it on the floor.