Can you deny that what I say is true?
Can you say that you did not arrange with him to take me to Tragara, and to let him speak to me himself ?" "It is far too much trouble to deny anything, my dear child.

But all that may be quite true, and yet he may love you as sincerely as he can love any one.

I do not suppose you expect a man of his sense and education to roll himself at your feet and tear his hair and his clothes as they do on the stage." "A man need not do that to show that he is in earnest, and besides he--" "That is not the question," interrupted the Marchesa.

"The real question concerns you much more than it affects him.

If you break your promise--" "There was no promise." "You told him that you loved him, and you admit it.