He was very attentive to me, though Henry says 'twas right the other way.

But it wasn't.

I didn't ask him to go out to supper with me.

I only told him I'd introduce him to somebody who would go, and he immediately offered me his arm.

Oh, how mother scolded, and how angry she got when she asked me if I wasn't ashamed, and I told her I wasn't! "Billy doesn't appear just as he used to.