Only I fear that your courage is of so exalted a nature that you would be ever ready to do battle for any beauty who might be in distress--or, indeed, who might not.

You could never confine your valour to the protection of one maiden." "Oh, yes! but I would though if I liked her," said Frank.

"There isn't a more constant fellow in the world than I am in that way--you try me, Miss Dunstable." "When young ladies make such trials as that, they sometimes find it too late to go back if the trial doesn't succeed, Mr Gresham." "Oh, of course there's always some risk.

It's like hunting; there would be no fun if there was no danger." "But if you get a tumble one day you can retrieve your honour the next; but a poor girl, if she once trusts a man who says that he loves her, has no such chance.

For myself, I would never listen to a man unless I'd known him for seven years at least." "Seven years!" said Frank, who could not help thinking that in seven years' time Miss Dunstable would be almost an old woman.