"Did I ever show it?"
"Good God, how do I know what you showed? If it had been any other woman—yes, I could have sworn."
"You can't swear to any woman—I'm afraid—till you've married her.
Perhaps—not then."
"You shouldn't say things like that; they sound——"
"How do they sound?"
"As if you knew too much."
She smiled.
"Well, then—there's another reason."
He softened suddenly.
"I didn't mean that, Gwenda. You don't know what you're saying. You don't know anything. It's only that you're so beastly clever."