"Indeed you are wrong," he said.

"We were talking of the influence of a tone or a look on a sensitive person." "The influence on Me ?" she asked.
"No.

The influence which You might exercise on another person." She knew perfectly well that he was speaking of himself.

But she was determined to feel the pleasure of making him own it.
"If I have any such influence as you describe," she began, "I hope it is for good ?" "Certainly for good." "You speak positively, Mr.Romayne.Almost as positively--only that can hardly be--as if you were speaking from experience." He might still have evaded a direct reply, if she had been content with merely saying this.

But she looked at him while she spoke.