"I want you to do with me exactly as you do with him." "Ah that's soon said!" the girl replied in a peculiar tone.

"How do you mean, to 'do' ?" "Well then to BE.

What shall I say ?" Vanderbank pleasantly wondered while his foot kept up its motion.

"To feel." She continued to handle the cigarette-case, without, however, having profited by its contents.

"I don't think that as regards Mr.Longdon and me you know quite so much as you suppose." Vanderbank laughed and smoked.