But we were talking about Mr.Herrick, were we not ?" Elizabeth was not quite herself.

Something in Dinah's speech had ruffled her.

She was a little quick-tempered and impulsive; but she soon recovered herself.
"Does it strike you, Die, that Mr.Herrick is quite aware of his own cleverness, and that he rather prides himself on being original and out of the common.

Oh, I mean nothing unkind," as Dinah looked rather grave at this.

"I like him exceedingly.