Don't be too sure!" For a moment they looked at each other.

"Don't be so sure, you mean, that the elation of it may go to my head?
Are you really warning me against vanity ?" "Your 'reallys,' my dear Van, are a little formidable, but it strikes me that before I tell you there's something I've a right to ask.

Are you 'really' what they call thinking of my daughter ?" "Your asking," Vanderbank returned, "exactly shows the state of your knowledge of the matter.

I don't quite see moreover why you speak as if I were paying an abrupt and unnatural attention.

What have I done the last three months but talk to you about her?
What have you done but talk to ME about her?
From the moment you first spoke to me--'monstrously,' I remember you called it--of the difference made in your social life by her finally established, her perpetual, her inexorable participation: from that moment what have we both done but put our heads together over the question of keeping the place tidy, as you called it--or as _I_ called it, was it ?--for the young female mind ?" Mrs.Brook faced serenely enough the directness of this challenge.
"Well, what are you coming to?
I spoke of the change in my life of course; I happen to be so constituted that my life has something to do with my mind and my mind something to do with my talk.