I'll take care of myself this evening, thank you.' 'This is monstrous!' cried the fair man, and with a peculiarly un-English gesture he thrust his hand into his thick hair.
The foreigner in despair has always amused the genuine Anglo-Saxon.
Lady Maud's lip did not curl contemptuously now, she did not raise her eyebrows, nor did her eyes flash with scorn.

On the contrary, she smiled quite frankly, and the sweet ripple was in her voice, the ripple that drove some men almost crazy.
'You needn't make such a fuss,' she said.

'It's quite absurd, you know.

Mr.Van Torp is an old friend of mine, and you have known him ever so long, and he is a man of business.

You are, are you not ?' she asked, looking to the American for assent.
'I'm generally thought to be that,' he answered.
'Very well.