If I am in a boat, I like to row; and if I row, I prefer rowing stroke.

But I do not want to row now, because I have been playing golf the whole afternoon.

And you know perfectly well it would be no pleasure to you to have to gaze at me all the way up and all the way down the river; knowing all the time, that I was mentally criticising your stroke and marking the careless way you feathered." Garth sat down, lay back in his chair, with his arms behind his sleek dark head, and looked at her with his soft shining eyes, just as he had looked at the duchess.
"How cross you are, old chap," he said, gently.

"What is the matter ?" Jane laughed and held out her hand.

"Oh, you dear boy! I think you have the sweetest temper in the world.