I would die sooner than marry a German man." "But Ernest is not like that, Dorothea.

He is not like that with my sisters.

Why, he is rather the other way, awfully polite and all that sort of thing, you know." "Yes, that's the way with young German gentlemen to young ladies, that is, other people's ladies.

But to their own, no.

And I must tell you.
Oh, I am afraid to tell you," she added breathlessly.