"Then she must know me better than I thought she did," he continued, thoughtfully.
"Didn't she go to school with you?"
"Not with me grown up."
"That's a distinction that doesn't mean anything."
"It means something to me. I am more at home with Linnet than I am with her. She has changed; she keeps within herself."
"Then you must bring her out."
"How can she care, if she thinks I have trifled with her?"
"I didn't say she thought so, I said I thought so!"
"You have hastened this very much. I wanted her to know me and trust me.
I want my wife to love me, Mrs. West."
"No doubt of that, Master Hollis," with a sigh of congratulation to herself. "All you have to do is to tell her what you have told me. She will throw you off."