"Nobody I care about would think things like that of me."
"Anne dear, I'm not so sure."
"Then it shows how much they care about me."
"But it's because they care."
"I can't help it. They may care, but they don't know. They can't know anything about me if they think that."
"And you honestly don't mind?"
"I mind what you think. But you don't think it, Eliot, do you?"
"I? Good Lord no! Do you mind what mother thinks?"
"Yes, I mind. But it doesn't matter very much."
"It would matter if Jerrold thought it."