"Cannot you feel? There is some mystery afloat; some event is expected; some preparation is to be made, I am certain. I saw it all in Mr. Moore's manner this evening. He was excited, yet hard."
"Hard to _you_, Shirley?"
"Yes, to _me_. He often is hard to me. We seldom converse _tte--tte_ but I am made to feel that the basis of his character is not of eider down."
"Yet he seemed to talk to you softly."

There is some mystery afloat; some event is expected; some preparation is to be made, I am certain. I saw it in Mr. Moore's manner this evening. He was excited, yet hard."
"Hard to you, Shirley?"
"Yes. He often is hard to me. I am made to feel that the basis of his character is not of eiderdown."
"Yet he seemed to talk to you softly."
