She would have appreciated one's esteem."
"Is that a modest way," asked Mrs. Costello, "of saying that she would
have reciprocated one's affection?"
Winterbourne offered no answer to this question; but he presently said,
"You were right in that remark that you made last summer. I was booked
to make a mistake. I have lived too long in foreign parts."
Nevertheless, he went back to live at Geneva, whence there continue
to come the most contradictory accounts of his motives of sojourn:
a report that he is "studying" hard--an intimation that he is much
interested in a very clever foreign lady.
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