"I desire the credit of it.

I started the idea; you never would have come without me." "I think it would have been more proper to come without you than with you," Blanche declared.

"You know you 're a dreadful character." "I 'm much worse when I 'm away from you than when I 'm with you," said Lovelock.

"You keep me in order." The young girl gave a little cry.
"I don't know what you call order! You can't be worse than you have been to-night." Angela was not listening to this; she turned away a little, looking about at the empty garden.
"This is the third time to-day that you have contradicted yourself," he said.

Though he spoke softly he went nearer to her; but she appeared not to hear him--she looked away.
"You ought to have been there, Mr.Longueville," Blanche went on.