This is the first opportunity I ever had of talking about myself to a lady, and I suppose I have abused it." Marian laughed.

"We had better stop apologizing to one another," she said.

"What about the accompaniments to our next songs ?" Meanwhile Marmaduke and Miss McQuinch were becoming curious about Marian and Conolly.
"I say, Nelly," he whispered, "Marian and that young man seem to be getting on uncommonly well together.

She looks sentimentally happy, and he seems pleased with himself.

Dont you feel jealous ?" "Jealous! Why should I be ?" "Out of pure cussedness.