Presently she smiled; the girlish exuberance amused her.
"She has put you quite out of reach.

What a fine thing it must be to have such faith in any man!" "And I'm not worth in her esteem an ounce to the pound." He was quite frank with himself.

"I would to Heaven I were!" "And this is the kind of woman that you will fall violently in love with, some day, Dick.

It will be your punishment." She had fully recovered by now, and the old-time raillery was in the ascendant.

"Oh, she has read you fairly well.