His heart softened at once.

"Never mind," said he.
"You didn't mean it." "It's only because I love you, Paul," she murmured wretchedly.
"That's all right," he said.

"Let us go in here"-- they were passing a confectioner's--"and we'll have some jam-puffs." Paul went to his friend Rowlatt, who had already heard, through one of his assistants who had a friend in the Life School, of the dramatic end of the model's career.
"I quite sympathize with you," Rowlatt laughed.

"I've wondered how you stuck it so long.

What are you going to do now ?" "I'm going on the stage." "How are you going to get there ?" "I don't know," said Paul, "but if I knew an actor, he would be able to tell me.