Only I don't like having my grievance taken away." "Against whom ?" "Ah! not against papa!" she said, hurriedly--"against Fate!" "If you dislike being deprived of a grievance--so do I.You have returned me my Rossetti." She laughed merrily.
"You made sure I should lose or keep it ?" "It is the first book that anybody has returned to me for years.

I was quite resigned." "To a damaging estimate of my character?
Thank you very much!" "I wonder"-- he said, in another tone--"what sort of estimate you have of _my_ character--false, or true ?" "Well, there have been a great many surprises!" said Diana, raising her eyebrows.
"In the matter of my character ?" "Not altogether." "My surroundings?
You mean I talked Radicalism--or, as you would call it, Socialism--to you at Portofino, and here you find me in the character of a sporting Squire ?" "I hear"-- she said, deliberately looking about her--"that this is the finest shoot in the county." "It is.

There is no denying it.

But, in the first place, it's my mother's shoot, not mine--the estate is hers, not mine--and she wishes old customs to be kept up.

In the next--well, of course, the truth is that I like it abominably!" He had thrust his cap into his pocket, and was walking bareheaded.