But I mean to.

I only ask you for a hint." She understood her own feeling better than he.

She understood at least that she was dealing with things that were necessarily incalculable.
"I can't give you a hint," she said.

"I can't make any plans about it.
If you were a woman perhaps you would understand.

Love is, or it isn't.
That is all I know about it." But Michael persisted.
"I only know what you have taught me," he said.