"It is unfortunate." "Not at all!" she replied sharply.

"If you'd behave like a reasonable person for five minutes, I might ask you to stay." "A little instruction ?" he pleaded.

"I am really quite apt.

My apparent stupidity is only misleading." "You may be, as you say, a vagabond and an outcast, and all that sort of thing, but this is a conventional English home," the girl with the blue eyes declared, "and I am a perfectly well-behaved young woman with an absent-minded but strict parent.

I could not think of asking any one to tea of whose very name I was ignorant." He pointed to the afternoon paper which lay at her feet.
"I sign myself there 'A Passer-by.' My real name is Burton.