But there is omitted from it, necessarily perhaps, the most pregnant comment of all.
"And yet," he said to me once, as he turned to leave the room after commenting upon their freedom of speech with one another, "I am not in love with her, though I can't think why I am not." The sequel must be soon told.

Miss B---- suddenly accepted a gentleman who was in every way a suitable _parti_: heir to a peerage, of fairly high character.
But to return to Arthur.

I can not do better than quote a few sentences of a letter he wrote to me on the event.

It conceals--as he was wont to do--strong feeling under the bantering tone.
"As you are in possession of most of my moral and mental diagnoses, I had better communicate to you a new and disturbing element.

You remember what I said to you about Miss B----, that I did not care for her.