I daresay she means it kindly, but it harasses me.

I am one of those reserved people who do not find it easy to talk of their feelings, bodily or mental, except to a chosen few.

You are one,--perhaps not the only one.' 'Of course not,' for she hesitated.

'You do not suppose that I laid such flattering unction to my soul ?' 'Oh, but I could tell you anything,' she returned seriously.

'You seem to draw out one's thoughts while one is thinking them.