You join their lists?—I hoped for better things.”
“But was it right to keep me ignorant?”
“I hoped it right,” she said, “to keep you wise.
What Elbert thought, I knew. With you, had hopes,
That she who might not seem so wholly wrong
Might better represent a class unknown,—”
“Without design, might represent amiss,”
I answer’d. “As for you, however class’d,
I fear no class could claim you, all in all.
For all rules have exceptions.”