"That's not the only thing with you."
"No, it isn't," he replied, a little surprised.
"I feel rather responsible for it all, you know. I was at the bottom of Morewood's showing you that picture."
"It must have dawned on me sooner of later."
"I don't know. But, yes—I expect so. You're hard hit."
Stafford smiled.
"Hard hit about her; and harder hit because it was a plunge to go into it at all."
"You're quite right."
"Of course I can't go into that side of it very much, but I think I know more or less how you feel."
"I really think you do. It surprises me."