Besides, she asked me to come." "She asked you ?" "Yesterday, in so many words." "Ah, the jade!" "Exactly.

I am willing to take her for that." "Why in the name of common sense did you go back to her ?" "Why did I find her standing there like a goddess who had just stepped out of her cloud?
Why did I look at her?
Before I knew where I was, the harm was done." Rowland, who had been sitting erect, threw himself back on the grass and lay for some time staring up at the sky.

At last, raising himself, "Are you perfectly serious ?" he asked.
"Deadly serious." "Your idea is to remain at Interlaken some time ?" "Indefinitely!" said Roderick; and it seemed to his companion that the tone in which he said this made it immensely well worth hearing.
"And your mother and cousin, meanwhile, are to remain here?
It will soon be getting very cold, you know." "It does n't seem much like it to-day." "Very true; but to-day is a day by itself." "There is nothing to prevent their going back to Lucerne.

I depend upon your taking charge of them." At this Rowland reclined upon the grass again; and again, after reflection, he faced his friend.

"How would you express," he asked, "the character of the profit that you expect to derive from your excursion ?" "I see no need of expressing it.