Yes, I feel amply repaid.

Did you notice, Alice, or was it but a fancy of my own, that when he had seen the expression on your face the sun quite slunk away ?" "I wonder you don't do so also," she retorted.

She had no sense of humour, and was rather stupid; so it is no wonder that the men ran after her.
"I am more gallant than the sun," said he.

"If I had been up there in its place, Alice, and you had been looking at me, I could never have set." She pouted contemptuously, which meant, I think, that she was well pleased.

Yet, though he seemed to be complimenting her, she was not sure of him.