How were they to know?
Come! come! don't be angry.

You are eight years older than I am--you ought to set me an example of good-humor." "I will set you an example of plain-speaking.

I am more sorry than I can say, Magdalen, to meet you as I met you here just now!" "What next, I wonder?
You meet me in the shrubbery at home, talking over the private theatricals with my old playfellow, whom I knew when I was no taller than this parasol.

And that is a glaring impropriety, is it?
'Honi soit qui mal y pense.' You wanted an answer a minute ago--there it is for you, my dear, in the choicest Norman-French." "I am in earnest about this, Magdalen--" "Not a doubt of it.

Nobody can accuse you of ever making jokes." "I am seriously sorry--" "Oh, dear!" "It is quite useless to interrupt me.