"I have been here for a month, though, and you are the first person to whom I have spoken like this.

And you yourself," he pointed out, "encouraged me, did you not, when you insisted upon your Austro-English nationality ?" "You must not take me too seriously," she begged, smiling.

"I spoke foolishly, perhaps, but only for your good.

You see, Mr.Francis Norgate, I am just a little interested in you and your career." "And I, dear Baroness," he replied, smiling across at her, "am more than a little interested in--you." She unfurled her fan.
"I believe," she sighed, "that you are going to flirt with me." "I should enter into an unequal contest," Norgate asserted.

"My methods would seem too clumsy, because I should be too much in earnest." "Whatever the truth may be about your methods," she declared, "I rather like them, or else I should not be risking my reputation in this still prudish city by dining with you alone and without a chaperon.