But how stupid you must have thought me not even to know! I feel that it is I who ought to apologize.

What a number of ways there seem to be of making love, and yours is such an odd way!" Now to apologize for playing a poor part is one thing, and to put up with the charge of playing a part poorly is quite another.
Nevertheless, he kept his temper.
"You have discovered an excellent way of punishing me," he said manfully, "and I submit.

Indeed, I admire you the more.

So I am paying you a compliment when I whisper that I know you knew." But she would not have it.

"You are so strangely dense to-night," she said.