Densher approved. "He came to let her know that he knows better than
she for whom it was she had a couple of months before, in her fool's
paradise, refused him."
"How you _do_ know!"--and Mrs. Stringham almost smiled.
"I know that--but I don't know the good it does him."
"The good, he thinks, if he has patience--not too much--may be to come.
He doesn't know what he has done to her. Only _we_, you see, do that."