RANSOM: "She seemed so much above me in every way--so sensitive, so
refined, so gentle, so good, so angelic!"

MISS REED: "There! NOW do you call it eavesdropping? If listeners
never hear any good of themselves, what do you say to that? It
proves that I haven't been listening."

MISS SPAULDING: "'Sh! They're saying something else."

RANSOM: "But all that's neither here nor there. I can see now that
under the circumstances she couldn't as a lady have acted otherwise
than she did. She was forced to treat our whole acquaintance as a
business matter, and I had forced her to do it."

MISS REED: "You HAD, you poor thing!"

GRINNIDGE: "Well, what do you intend to do about it?"

RANSOM: "Well" -

MISS REED: "'Sh!"

MISS SPAULDING: "'Sh!"

RANSOM: "--that's what I want to submit to you, Grinnidge. I must
see her."

GRINNIDGE: "Yes. I'm glad _I_ mustn't."

MISS REED, stifling a laugh on Miss Spaulding's shoulder: "They're