You think you do--" "I do, I do, Louis! She's the sweetest, finest, most generous, most suitable--" "Sure," he said, hastily, "she's all that except 'suitable'-- and she isn't that, and I'm not, either.

For the love of Mike, Lily, let me go on admiring her, even loving her in a perfectly harmless--" "It _isn't_ harmless to caress a girl--" "Why--you can't call it caressing--" "What do you call it ?" "Nothing.

We've always been on an intimate footing.

She's perfectly unembarrassed about--whatever impulsive--er--fugitive impulses--" "You _do_ kiss her!" "Seldom--very seldom.

At moments the conditions happen accidentally to--suggest--some slight demonstration--of a very warm friendship--" "You positively sicken me! Do you think a nice girl is going to let a man paw her if she doesn't consider him pledged to her ?" "I don't think anything about it.