"One cannot always remember such affairs." His craft was headed for the rocks.

Had he observed Dorothy's face, he would have seen the storm a-brewing.
"To how many women, Sir John, have you lost your heart, and at various times how many have lost their hearts to you ?" asked the persistent girl.--"What a senseless question," returned John.

"A dozen times or more; perhaps a score or two score times.

I cannot tell the exact number.

I did not keep an account." Dorothy did not know whether she wanted to weep or be angry.