It wouldn't be that; it would be a feeling very much worse." Isabel walked on again; she was silent for some minutes.

"I'm very sure that, highly as I already think of you, my opinion of you, if I should know you well, would only rise.

But I'm by no means sure that you wouldn't be disappointed.

And I say that not in the least out of conventional modesty; it's perfectly sincere." "I'm willing to risk it, Miss Archer," her companion replied.
"It's a great question, as you say.

It's a very difficult question." "I don't expect you of course to answer it outright.