"No."
"Why?"
"Because I consider the whole thing quite inexplicable."
"Are you enthusiastic about Miss Helen?"
"Infinitely so."
"I suppose you take a special interest in all girls who are fresh from school?"
"Only when they are really interesting."
"Not always. Or do you really mean to say that Emily von Breesen deserves being called so?"
"I have never been enthusiastic about her."
"Well--but then she has been all the more so about you. Lisbeth was the confidante of her grief, and Lisbeth has of course told me the whole story."