Do you understand?
I want you to understand.

For when I have been unkind, as I have been many times, it was, I think, because I was not obeying it with very much success.

And I should like you to believe and know that.

For when you are away, you will remember, in spite of yourself, the times when I was bitter." Her words made clear to him many things which had perplexed him during these last weeks.

Her friendship for Walter Hine became intelligible, and as though to leave him no shadow of doubt, she went on.
"You see, I knew the under side of things, and I seemed to see the opportunity to use the knowledge.