More flies can be caught with molasses than vinegar, you know." "I shall have little patience with her," declared her lover.

"I detested her the first instant my eyes rested upon her, and I am positive the feeling will grow upon me with every passing hour, instead of diminishing." "It is easy enough to guess the reason for that," laughed the other.
"You are in love with the queenly Gertrude, who has already more adorers than she can count.

It is common report that you are the beauty's favorite, however, and if you weren't both so confoundedly poor, you'd make a first-class couple.

As it is, of course it's not to be thought of." "Except in one way," cut in the other in a sharp, dry, hard voice.

"If this girl whom I marry to-night were to die suddenly on the wedding trip, for instance, I would come in for her fortune; then, when the excitement blew over, I could go to Gertrude and say--" The sentence was never finished, for at that moment the door of the vehicle was suddenly wrenched open, and with a piercing cry Faynie sprang out into the raging storm and the inky blackness of the night.
A terrible imprecation broke from the lips of the handsome scoundrel by her side.
"I'll bet a dollar to a doughnut that that little fool tricked us by feigning unconsciousness, and has heard every word we uttered.