I haven't really been very dreadful." "You knew even _then_ ?" "Yes, I did.

The Palm Beach News published your picture a week ago; and I read all about the very remarkable landscape architect who was coming to turn the Cardross jungle into a most wonderful Paradise." "You knew me all that time ?" "All of it, Mr.Hamil." "From the moment you climbed into my boat ?" "Practically.

Of course I did not look at you very closely at first....
Does that annoy you?
It seems to ...

or something does, for even in the dusk I can see your ever-ready blush--" "I don't know why you pretend to think me such a fool," he protested, laughing; "you seemed to take that for granted from the very first." "Why not?
You persistently talked to me when you didn't know me--you're doing it now for that matter!--and you began by telling me that I was fool-hardy, not really courageous in the decent sense of the word, and that I was a self-conscious stick and a horribly inhuman and unnatural object generally--and all because I wouldn't flirt with you--" His quick laughter interrupted her.

She ventured to laugh a little too--a very little; and that was the charm of her to him--the clear-eyed, delicate gravity not lightly transformed.