"I know it very well," said I. "I am not more sure of anything."
"That's a dear girl," retorted Richard, "and like you, because it gives me comfort. I had need to get some scrap of comfort out of all this business, for it's a bad one at the best, as I have no occasion to tell you."
"I know perfectly," said I. "I know as well, Richard--what shall I say? as well as you do--that such misconstructions are foreign to your nature. And I know, as well as you know, what so changes it."

"I know it very well," said I.
"That's a dear girl;" retorted Richard, "it gives me comfort. I need to get some scrap of comfort out of all this business, for it's a bad one at best."
"I know perfectly," said I. "I know too that such false suspicions are foreign to your nature. And we both know what so changes it."
