"And in these particular circumstances—?"
"I'm not prepared to say. I'm not sufficiently familiar with them."
"Precisely; but I am."
"You're familiar with them from a man's point of view," she smiled; "but it's one of those instances in which a man's point of view counts for very little."
"Admitting that, what would be your advice?"
"I have none to give."
"None?"
She shook her head. Leaving his fortified position by the mantelpiece, he took a step or two toward her.
"And yet when I began to speak you seemed favorably inclined to the offer I was making you. You must have had ideas on the subject, then."
"Only vague ones. I made the mistake of supposing that yours would be equally so."