I expect you know how fond I am of you, and if you don't I assure you of it now.

But I have got to give you more than that." Michael looked up at her.
"Yes, Sylvia," he said, "much more than that." A few minutes ago only she had not liked him at all; now she liked him immensely.
"But how, Michael ?" she asked.

"How can I find it ?" "Oh, it's I who have got to find it for you," he said.

"That is to say, if you want it to be found.

Do you ?" She looked at him gravely, without the tremor of a smile in her eyes.
"What does that mean exactly ?" she said.
"It is very simple.