"Don't worry and fret too much about the philosophy of life.

Leave philosophy alone, and take to photography instead.

Here, I will lend you my old camera." "Do you mean that ?" she asked, glancing at him in astonishment.
"Of course I mean it," he said.
He looked remarkably pleased with himself, and Bernardine could not help smiling.
He looked just as a child looks when he has given up a toy to another child, and is conscious that he has behaved himself rather well.
"I am very much obliged to you," she said frankly.

"I have had a great wish to learn photography." "I might have lent my camera to you before, mightn't I ?" he said thoughtfully.
"No," she answered.

"There was not any reason." "No," he said, with a kind of relief, "there was not any reason.