He had not even for a second the fear that she had been laughing at him.

She was laughing because life was so adorable, so enchanting.
"Ah, but you're cruel to make me feel the barbarity of my sex," he replied, drawing his feet together and pressing his finger-tips upon an imaginary opera-hat or malacca cane.

"We've been discussing all sorts of dull things, and now I shall never know what I want to know more than anything in the world." "You don't deceive us for a minute!" she cried.

"Not for a second.
We both know that you've been enjoying yourself immensely.

Hasn't he, Katharine ?" "No," she replied, "I think he's speaking the truth.