It's difficult to keep one's mind on what she's saying; there is never any background to it.

She wants something, but she doesn't know whether it's what other people want or whether it's what she wants, so that she can't want anything very definitely.' Gerald still laughed.

'How you must have been taking her in!' 'I suppose I must have been, though I didn't know it.

But I did like her, you know.

I liked her very much.