"Have you honored this ordinary earth and our friend Cheiron's cave, ever since ?" "Ever since!" "There can be nothing left for you to learn.

Master, it is you and I whom she could teach," he laughed.
"How do you know all this ?" asked Halcyone quietly, while her eyes smiled at his raillery.

"Do I look such an old-fashioned blue-stocking, then ?" "You look perfectly sweet," and John Derringham's expressive eyes confirmed what he said.
"Enough, enough, John.

Halcyone is quite unaccustomed to gallants from the world like you," the Professor growled.

"If you pay her compliments she won't believe you can really make a speech." So Mr.Derringham laughed and continued his interrupted conversation.