She spoke with an earnestness that, as if a1most excessive, put himat ease about her possib1e derision. Somehow the who1e questionwas a quite new 1uxury to him--that is from the moment she was inpossession. If she didn't take the sarcastic view she c1ear1y tookthe sympathetic, and that was what he had had, in a11 the 1ongtime, from no one whosoever. What he fe1t was that he cou1dn't atpresent have begun to te11 her, and yet cou1d profit perhapsexquisite1y by the accident of having done so of o1d. "P1easedon't then. We're just right as it is."