You know what I mean very well." "You mean that you are offended with me; that is plain enough.

But when I part with a young lady on good terms, and after a lapse of years, during which we neither meet nor correspond, she asks me how I dare speak to her, I am naturally startled." "We did not part on good terms." Trefusis stretched his eyebrows, as if to stretch his memory.

"If not," he said, "I have forgotten it, on my honor.

When did we part, and what happened?
It cannot have been anything very serious, or I should remember it." His forgetfulness wounded Agatha.

"No doubt you are well accustomed to--" She checked herself, and made a successful snatch at her normal manner with gentlemen.