"You mean that you can't ever think of me in any other way than as a friend," he said.
Charlotte nodded.

"You know it is not because there's one thing against you, Thomas." "Then it is Barney, after all." "I was all ready to marry him a few weeks ago," Charlotte said, with a kind of dignified reproach.
Thomas colored.

"I know it, Charlotte; I ought not to have expected--I suppose you couldn't get over it so soon.

I couldn't if I had been in your place, and been ready to marry anybody.

But I didn't know about girls; I didn't know but they were different; I always heard they got over things quicker.