She spoke with an earnestness that, as if almost excessive, put himat ease about her possible derision. Somehow the whole questionwas a quite new luxury to him--that is from the moment she was inpossession. If she didn't take the sarcastic view she clearly tookthe sympathetic, and that was what he had had, in all the longtime, from no one whosoever. What he felt was that he couldn't atpresent have begun to tell her, and yet could profit perhapsexquisitely by the accident of having done so of old. "Pleasedon't then. We're just right as it is."