You know--I--I might be mistaken." His eyes, which had dilated when she began to speak, darkened; his color, which had quickly come, as quickly sank when she had ended.
"Don't say that, Miss Carr.

It is not like you, and--it is useless.

You know what I meant a moment ago.

I read it in your reply.

You meant that I, like others, had deceived myself.