"If you had remembered what I was once you wouldn't have been surprised." "Ah, no," she said quickly. "But men of your character are mostly so independent." "What is my character?" he asked. "I don't exactly know," said Thomasin simply, "except it is to cover up your feelings under a practical manner, and only to show them when you are alone." "Ah, how do you know that?" said Venn strategically. "Because," said she, stopping to put the little girl, who had managed to get herself upside down, right end up again, "because I do."
