How could I help being so ?" "There existed no cause for it, Paul.

Mr.Dexter had an equal right with yourself to visit Miss Loring." "True." "And an equal right to choose his own time." "I will not deny it." "Therefore, there was no reason in the abstract, why his complimentary call upon the lady should create in your mind unpleasant feelings towards the man.

You had no more right to complain of his presence there, than he had to complain of yours." "I confess it." "There is one thing," pursued Mrs.Denison, "in which you disappoint me, Paul.

You seem to lack a manly confidence in yourself.

You are as good as Leon Dexter--aye, a better, truer man in every sense of the word--a man to please a woman at all worth pleasing, far better than he.