It must have been exaggerated to you." "Please do not conceal anything--let me know all!" said Felice, doubtingly.
"You shall know all I know--you have a perfect right to know--who can have a better than either of you ?" said Grace, with a delicate sting which was lost upon Felice Charmond now.

"I repeat, I have only heard a less alarming account than you have heard; how much it means, and how little, I cannot say.

I pray God that it means not much--in common humanity.

You probably pray the same--for other reasons." She regarded them both there in the dim light a while.
They stood dumb in their trouble, not stinging back at her; not heeding her mood.

A tenderness spread over Grace like a dew.