"Oh, don't talk about truth! I'm fresh from a surfeit of it. I shouldn't have thought it made you any more—" He paused, in difficulty how to say enough and not too much.
"Any happier to know?"
"Well—if you like," said Ashley, again accepting her phrase.
"No, it doesn't," she said briefly. Then she added, "I promised not to tell you; don't let him know I have."
"I'll try to prove a better confidant than he is," said Ashley. "And why did you tell me?"
"You half guessed. I didn't tell. But—don't you think we might sympathise a little?"
"We'll sympathise all we can," said Ashley with a laugh.
"We might almost all sympathise; she's made a difference to almost all of us."
"Who has?"