He never asked if the initials belonged to a man or to a woman.

The other pupils do not know.

Why should this one?
What does it matter to him if you have done the work for which he engaged your services ?" "But, oh, he is so different! And the others, you know, keep to the subject." "So should he, then.

Why didn't he ?" "But he hasn't.

And I have been answering him, and he must think that I was drawing him on to tell me more about himself; and now--oh, what will he think?
I drew him on and on--yet I didn't mean to--till at last he writes to say that he regards me as the best friend and the wisest adviser he has ever had.