"What a pity it was that I was such a poverty-stricken beggar in those days.

I am sure that I should have married you." "Now I am beginning to like you," she declared, settling down more comfortably in her chair.

"If you can keep up like that we shall be getting positively sentimental presently, and if there's anything I adore in this world--especially before luncheon--it is sentiment.

Do you remember we used to waltz together, Arranmore ?" "You gave me a glove one night," he said.

"I have it still." "And you pressed my hand--and--it was in the Setons' conservatory--how bold you were." "And the next day," he declared, in an aggrieved tone, "I heard that you were engaged to Caroom.