suprunp
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Then she read his letters again, all of them, several times; and now, reading between the lines indeed, she was puzzled to notice a change which had escaped her. The later letters were as tender and as delightful as the first, but the tone was different. She was vaguely suspicious of their humour, she had the instinctive mistrust of her sex for that unaccountable quality, and she discerned in them now a flippancy which perplexed her.
(W.S. Maugham; The Fall of Edward Barnard)
Is it possible to substitute 'for' with 'in','of' or 'towards/toward'?
Thanks.
(W.S. Maugham; The Fall of Edward Barnard)
Is it possible to substitute 'for' with 'in','of' or 'towards/toward'?
Thanks.