She was sure he had not cared for her before that.

He could not have begun to care since! And if he had, how in wonder could Nick have come to know?
Certainly he knew most things.

His uncanny shrewdness had moved her many a time before to amazement and admiration.

This quickness of intellect was hers also, but in a far smaller degree.

She could leap to conclusions herself and often find them correct.