"Pity I ever stopped talking."
"I wonder!"
"You wonder——?"
"Whether it's really a pity you never quite succeeded in talking me into believing I loved you enough to marry you, whether we wouldn't all have been happier, you, Bel, and I."
"Then you aren't altogether——"
"Hush! I haven't said so."
"No; but you've had time to find out."
"Perhaps...."
"And you know your secrets are safe with me."
"That's why I'm going to say—what I am going to say."