If I fail, then I step aside." "Entirely aside, and out of the way ?" asked Mrs Null.
"Entirely," answered Lawrence.
"Well," said Annie, leaning back in her chair, in which before she had been sitting very upright, "you have, at last, given me a good deal of your confidence; almost as much as I gave you.

Some of the things you say I believe, others I don't." Lawrence was annoyed, but he would not allow himself to get angry.

"I am not accustomed to being disbelieved," he said, gravely.

"It is a very unusual experience, I assure you.

Which of my statements do you doubt ?" "I don't believe," said Annie, "that you will give her up if she rejects you while you are here.