Do you still think me cruel, Virginia ?" "I am wondering," she answered frankly.

"You see, I have read about you in the papers, and I was terribly frightened when mother told me that I was to come.

Directly I saw you, you seemed quite a different person, and now again I am afraid." "Ah!" he sighed, "that terrible Press of ours! They told you, I suppose, that I was hard, unscrupulous, unforgiving, a money-making machine, and all the rest of it.

Do you think that I look like that, Virginia ?" "I am very sure that you do not," she answered.
"You will know me better, I hope, in a year or so's time," he said.

"If you wish to please me, there are two things which you have to remember, and which I expect from you.