If there has been intimacy between you, such information should have come naturally,--as a thing of course.

You have made him no promise ?" "Oh no, papa." "Nor spoken to him--of your regard for him ?" "Never;--not a word.

Nor he to me,--except in such words as one understands even though they say nothing." "I wish he had never seen you." "Is he a bad man, papa ?" "Who knows?
I cannot tell.

He may be ever so bad.

How is one to know whether a man be bad or good when one knows nothing about him ?" At this point the father got up and walked about the room.