"The thing you have seen and felt has been in this world long enough for every man to understand.
Eve used it upon Adam.

I can't understand?
Damme, sir, do you think I am a clod?
I have felt it fifty times." "Not--" began Sir John, hesitatingly.
"Nonsense!" I replied.

"You, too, will have the same experience fifty times again before you are my age." "But the lady," said Sir John, "tell me of her.

Will you--can you present me to her?
If not, will you tell me who she is ?" I remained for a moment in thought, wondering if it were right for me to tell him that the girl whom he so much admired was the daughter of his father's enemy.

I could see no way of keeping Dorothy's name from him, so I determined to tell him.
"She is my cousin, Mistress Dorothy Vernon," I said.