But I didn't want to.
You see it was not like an engagement ring.' 'No, worse luck.' 'Why, worse luck ?' 'The ring would have been the outward and visible sign of an inward and spiritual bond.

If you had been really engaged to me--formally, officially engaged, you couldn't have thrown me over so easily.' 'I--throw you over! Is it quite fair to put it that way ?' 'No, I admit that.

Let us be honest with each other--this once.' 'This once--very well--but not at this moment.

I daresay there will be time for a talk by and by.' 'I wait your pleasure.' 'There are some things I should like to understand,' she went on, '-- about you--about me, it doesn't matter which.

And, after all, I only want to know about you out of a sort of perverse curiosity.' 'That's so like you.