It cannot be you that they speak of like that!'

Then he insists on my telling, displeas'd

At any concealment, What have I heard?

Worried and wearied, bewilder'd and teaz'd,

I blurt it out and repeat every word!

Harry regards me with almost a stare—

Pulls his moustache with a sort of amaze—

Passes his hand through his clustering hair

And—bursts out laughing, as if it was praise!

There is nothing so sweet or full of grace