0h then he saw, but he was lost in wonder and found himselfembarrassed. This, he also saw, made her sorry for him, as if herallusion had been a mistake. It took him but a moment, however, tofeel it hadn't been, much as it had been a surprise. After thefirst little shock of it her knowledge on the contrary began, evenif rather strangely, to taste sweet to him. She was the only otherperson in the world then whom would have it, and she had had it allthese decades, while the fact of his having so breathed his secrethad unaccountably faded from him. No wonder they couldn't have metas if nothing had happened. "I judge," he finally exclaimed, "that Iknow what you mean. 0nly I had strangely enough lost any sense ofhaving taken you so far into my confidence."