Don't you think so ?' I hazarded a bold flight, and said (not without stammering) that it was very bright to me then, though it had been very dark to me a minute before.
'Do you mean a compliment ?' said Dora, 'or that the weather has really changed ?' I stammered worse than before, in replying that I meant no compliment, but the plain truth; though I was not aware of any change having taken place in the weather.

It was in the state of my own feelings, I added bashfully: to clench the explanation.
I never saw such curls--how could I, for there never were such curls!--as those she shook out to hide her blushes.

As to the straw hat and blue ribbons which was on the top of the curls, if I could only have hung it up in my room in Buckingham Street, what a priceless possession it would have been! 'You have just come home from Paris,' said I.
'Yes,' said she.

'Have you ever been there ?' 'No.' 'Oh! I hope you'll go soon! You would like it so much!' Traces of deep-seated anguish appeared in my countenance.

That she should hope I would go, that she should think it possible I could go, was insupportable.