"Me and my words."
"Why?"
"It is not easy to say why, just in this instance."
"No. Well, Daisy, say the other thing. About the self-will."
I hesitated.
"Are you apt to be self-willed?" he asked, tenderly.
"I do not know. I believe I did not use to think so. I am afraid it is very difficult to know oneself, Christian."
"I think you are self-willed," he said, smiling.
"Did you use to see it in me?"
"I think so. What is the present matter in hand, Daisy?"