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When he had quitted them and Mrs. Dyott had candidly asked if her friend / had found him rude or crude, Maud replied -- though not immediately -- that / she had feared showing only too much how charming she found him. But if / Mrs. Dyott took this it was to weigh the sense. "How could you show it / too much?"
"Because I always feel that that's my only way of showing anything. It's / absurd, if you like," Mrs. Blessingbourne pursued, "but I never know, in / such intense discussions, what strange impression I may give."