I mean it, and I had better say it at once.

I had never seen any young people falling in love before, but I found them out quite soon.

I could not say so, of course, or show that I knew anything about it.

On the contrary, I was so demure and used to seem so unconscious that sometimes I considered within myself while I was sitting at work whether I was not growing quite deceitful.
But there was no help for it.

All I had to do was to be quiet, and I was as quiet as a mouse.