"Why not?
You have cost me something." "You said--" "I know what I said: I said that we might become friends.

But even so, you have already cost me something.

Tell me"-- he began to listen for this little trick of speech--"how many men do you know who would not misunderstand what I have done this evening?
And--do _you_ understand it, Mr.Hamil ?" "I think--" "If you do you are cleverer than I," she said almost listlessly, moving on again under the royal palms.
"Do you mean that--" "Yes; that I myself don't entirely understand it.

Here, under this Southern sun, we of the North are in danger of acquiring a sort of insouciant directness almost primitive.

There comes, after a while, a certain mental as well as physical luxury in relaxation of rule and precept, permitting us a simplicity which sometimes, I think, becomes something less harmless.