"What indeed;—unless you resent my—regard."
"I am not so rich in friends as to do that, Mr. Morton."
"I don't suppose there can be many people who have the same sort of feeling for you that I have."
"There are not many who have known me so long, certainly."
"You have some friend, I know," he said.
"More than one I hope."
"Some special friend. Who is he, Mary?"
"I don't know what you mean, Mr. Morton." She then thought that he was still alluding to Lawrence Twentyman.
"Tell me, Mary."
"What am I to tell you?"