She felt angry with herself for having given him an opening for such a remark, and annoyed with him for taking advantage of it.

"Let me give you some more tea," she said.
"Thank you so much, but I never exceed two cups," replied Mr Ogilvie, who did not particularly care for tea.

"And yet there comes a time, you know, when the sight of so peaceful and attractive a home as this makes one wish that one had one like it of one's own.

Of course a man has his tastes, his hobbies, his ambitions--every man, I mean, of character.

And I am a man of character.