"Yet some of them were worthy of a woman's affection."
"Of some women's, but not of Shirley's."
"Is she better than others of her sex?"
"She is peculiar, and more dangerous to take as a wife--rashly."
"I can imagine that."
"She spoke of you----"
"Oh, she did! I thought you denied it."
"She did not speak in the way you fancy; but I asked her, and I would make her tell me what she thought of you, or rather how she felt towards you. I wanted to know; I had long wanted to know."

"Yet some of them were worthy of a woman's affection," argued Moore.
"Of some women's, but not of Shirley's."
"Is she better than others of her sex?"
"She is peculiar, and more dangerous to take rashly as a wife."
"I can imagine that."
"She spoke of you - not in the way you imagined; but I made her tell me what she felt towards you. I wanted to know."
