It is the most charming and flattering thing, and it never occurred to me before.

After all, it was not eccentricity which caused you to throw up your work at the Bar--and disappear.

It was your hopeless devotion to me.

Don't disappoint me now by denying it.

Please don't! It was the announcement of my engagement, wasn't it ?" "And it has taken you all these years to find it out?
"I was shockingly obtuse," she murmured.