I thought it would be charming for her to know you--when I heard from her the extraordinary way you had dawned upon her; and charming therefore if I could help her to it.

And if I'm helping you to know HER," he went on, "isn't that charming too ?" "Oh I so want to!" Miss Wenham murmured in her unpractical impersonal way.

"You're so different!" she wistfully declared.
"It's YOU, if I may respectfully, ecstatically say so, who are different.

That's the point of it all.

I'm not sure that anything so terrible really ought to happen to you as to know us." "Well," said Miss Wenham, "I do know you a little by this time, don't I?
And I don't find it terrible.