I've come with the frankest explanations which I stand in more need of than you--so much for your vanity, but at the same time it's true.

I've come to be open with you from this time forward." "Then you have not been open with me before ?" "You know that yourself.

I've been cunning with you many times...

you smile; I'm very glad of that smile as a prelude to our explanation.

I provoked that smile on purpose by using the word 'cunning,' so that you might get cross directly at my daring to think I could be cunning, so that I might have a chance of explaining myself at once.