Will you kindly consider my position?
Will you let me ask you if you have been twice married, and if the name of your first husband was Woodville ?" She considered a little before she replied.
"The question is a perfectly natural one in your position," she said.
"But I think I had better not answer it." "May I as k why ?" "Certainly.

If I answered you, I should only lead to other questions, and I should be obliged to decline replying to them.

I am sorry to disappoint you.

I repeat what I said on the beach--I have no other feeling than a feeling of sympathy toward _you._ If you had consulted me before your marriage, I should willingly have admitted you to my fullest confidence.

It is now too late.