But why do you laugh ?" "I don't know.

Because you're such a queer mixture, I think.

You're half poet and half old maid." "I know I always seem to you highly ridiculous.

But I can't help having inherited certain traditions and trying to put them into practice." "Nonsense, William.

You may come of the oldest family in Devonshire, but that's no reason why you should mind being seen alone with me on the Embankment." "I'm ten years older than you are, Katharine, and I know more of the world than you do." "Very well.