"Ah--I was not once like this!" Tears of vexation were in his eyes.
"No, now--it was nothing.

I was too reproachful." "It would not have occurred to me if I had not seen something like it done elsewhere--at Middleton lately," he said, thoughtfully, after a while.
"By whom ?" "Don't ask it." She scanned him narrowly.

"I know quite well enough," she returned, indifferently.

"It was by my husband, and the woman was Mrs.Charmond.
Association of ideas reminded you when you saw me....Giles--tell me all you know about that--please do, Giles! But no--I won't hear it.

Let the subject cease.