I will confess that, two or three times, I thought you addressed me as 'miss.' I believed it to be only a slip of the tongue.
I didn't dream that you didn't know.

Even if I were a single woman I wouldn't think of encouraging you for a moment, for I am much---much---too old for you.

And now, let us immediately forget it all, Mr.Dalzell.

Shall we continue our stroll ?" Somehow the dazed midshipman managed to reply gracefully, and to follow his fair companion from Wiegard's.
"Poor Dan!" sighed Dave.

"I'll wager that's the worst crusher that Dalzell ever had.