"You don't appear the least surprised." "Of course not! I told you I was used to it.

Never knew a gentleman of taste to see me play yet and not take a violent fancy to me.

Pray go on." If Miss Dane wished, in her wickedness, to utterly disconcert her middle-aged admirer, she could not have adopted a surer plan.

For fully five minutes he sat staring in hopeless silence.
"Have you anything more to say ?" queried the dauntless Mollie, pulling out her watch.

"Because, if you have, you will please say it at once.
My time is precious, I assure you.