She might so easily have made a quarrel with me.

The way she has behaved to me is one of the prettiest things I have ever seen, and you shall see the way I shall always behave to her! Don't think it necessary to say out of politeness that I have not bored you; it is not in the least necessary.

You know perfectly well that you are disappointed in the charm of my society.

And I have done my best, too.
I can honestly affirm that!' For some time he said nothing, and then he remarked that I was very clever, but he did n't see a word of sense in what I said.

'It only proves,' I said, 'that the merit of my conversation is smaller than you had taken it into your head to fancy.
But I have done you good, all the same.