Then raising her head and gazing wistfully across the street noisy with the endless transit of innumerable bargains, she said with intense gravity: "He has been most generous." I was pleased to hear these words.

Not that I doubted the infatuation of Roderick Anthony, but I was pleased to hear something which proved that she was sensible and open to the sentiment of gratitude which in this case was significant.

In the face of man's desire a girl is excusable if she thinks herself priceless.

I mean a girl of our civilization which has established a dithyrambic phraseology for the expression of love.

A man in love will accept any convention exalting the object of his passion and in this indirect way his passion itself.