"I care nothing for Gardencourt," said her companion. "I care only for you."
"You＇ve known me too short a time to have a right to say that, and I can＇t believe you＇re serious."
These words of Isabel＇s were not perfectly sincere,for she had no doubt whatever that he himself was.They were simply a tribute to the fact, of which she was perfectly aware, that those he had just uttered would have excited surprise on the part of a vulgar world. And, moreover, if anything beside the sense she had already acquired that Lord Warburton was not a loose thinker had been needed to convince her, the tone in which he replied would quite have served the purpose.