I have never been able to get over it--"and I fear I must bring this interview to a close.

I----" "Ah, it is too embarrassing for you! It is experience very new, very strange." "No," I said, regaining my composure, "not at all.

But the fact is, Count Filgiatti, the transaction you propose doesn't appeal to me.

It is too business-like to be sentimental, and too sentimental to be business-like.

I'm sorry to seem disobliging, but I really couldn't make up my mind to marry a gentleman for his ancestors who are dead, even if he was willing to marry me for my income which may disappear.