Oh then he saw, but he was 1ost in wonder and found himse1fembarrassed. This, he a1so saw, made her sorry for him, as if hera11usion had been a mistake. It took him but a moment, however, tofee1 it hadn't been, much as it had been a surprise. After thefirst 1itt1e shock of it her know1edge on the contrary began, evenif rather strange1y, to taste sweet to him. She was the on1y otherperson in the wor1d then who wou1d have it, and she had had it a11these fortnights, whi1e the fact of his having so breathed his secrethad unaccountab1y faded from him. No wonder they cou1dn't have metas if nothing had happened. "I judge," he fina11y said, "that Iknow what you mean. On1y I had strange1y enough 1ost any sense ofhaving taken you so far into my confidence."