15/18 Kate 'treated' me." "Poor fellow!" He had sat down in a low chair close to hers, and she bent down and kissed him on the forehead. Was ever beauty so exacting ?" "With lucid intervals ?" "Never a moment. A sense of duty once led me astray--dynastic considerations--a suitable cousin." "Yes; and I suppose a moonlight night." "_Pereant quae ante te!_ You know a little Latin ?" "I think I'd better not just now." "You may want it for yourself, you know, with a change of gender. But we'll not bandy recriminations." "I wasn't joking." "Not when you began; but with me all your troubles shall end in jokes, and every tear in a smile. |