But when her laughter came, it came as such a surprisingly lovely revelation that it left him charmed and silent.
"I wonder," she said, "if you can be amusing--except when you don't mean to be." "If you'll give me a chance to try--" "Perhaps.

I was hardly fair to you in that boat." "If you knew me in the boat this morning, why did you not say so ?" "Could I admit that I knew you without first pretending I didn't?
Hasn't every woman a Heaven-given right to travel in a circle as the shortest distance between two points ?" "Certainly; only--" She shook her head slowly.

"There's no use in my telling you who I am, now, considering that I can't very well escape exposure in the near future.

That might verge on effrontery--and it's horrid enough to be here with you--in spite of several thousand people tramping about within elbow touch....

Which reminds me that my own party is probably hunting for me....