For she was adorable when teased--especially in the beginning of their acquaintance, before she had found out that it was a habit of his--and her bright confusion always delighted him into further mischief.
"But I wasn't a bit worried," he continued; "you had him so firmly around the neck.

Besides, what horse or man could resist such a pleading pair of arms around the neck ?" "What you saw," she said, flushing up, "is exactly the way I shall do any pleading with the two animals you mention." "Spur and curb and thrash us?
Oh, my!" "Not if you're bridle-wise, Captain Selwyn," she returned sweetly.

"And you know you always are.

And sometimes"-- she crossed her crop and looked around at him reflectively--"_sometimes_, do you know, I am almost afraid that you are so very, very good, that perhaps you are becoming almost goody-good." "_What_!" he exclaimed indignantly; but his only answer was her head thrown back and a ripple of enchanting laughter.
Later she remarked: "It's just as Nina says, after all, isn't it ?" "I suppose so," he replied suspiciously; "what ?" "That Gerald isn't really very wicked, but he likes to have us think so.

It's a sign of extreme self-consciousness, isn't it," she added innocently, "when a man is afraid that a woman thinks he is very, very good ?" "That," he said, "is the limit.