"Certainly, certainly!" her companion cried. "I wouldn＇t bore you for the world."
"You＇ve given me a great deal to think about, and I promise you to do it justice."
"That＇s all I ask of you, of course—and that you＇ll remember how absolutely my happiness is in your hands."
Isabel listened with extreme respect to this admonition,but she said after a minute: "I must tell you that what I shall think about is some way of letting you know that what you ask is impossible—letting you know it without making you miserable."