In its way it was a sort of test." "I pray heaven--" said Anne; but she was too greatly shocked by the anecdote to shape her prayer.
Majendie, feeling that the time, the place, and her mood were propitious for the exposition, went on.
"There's another man I know.

He was very fond of Edie.

He's fond of her still.

He'll come and sit for hours playing backgammon with her.

And yet all his fondness for her hasn't kept him entirely straight.