"I do know them!"
"From the rest of the world; but not from each other."
"Why not from each other?"
"Not enough for your liking or your judgment to tell which would suit you."
"Why would not either suit?" said Rufus.
"I think — if you ask me — that one would not make you happy, in the long run; and the other, with your present views and aims, you could not make happy."
"Which is which?" said Rufus, laughing and drawing up a chair opposite his brother.
"Either of them is which," said Winthrop. "Such being the case, I don't know that it is material to inquire."
"It is very material! for I cannot be satisfied without the answer. I am in earnest in the whole matter, Winthrop."
"So am I, very much in earnest."