"It is only because I am rather idiotic about cows that I happened to be afraid.

I am sure that it was a perfectly harmless animal." "On the contrary," he assured her seriously, "there was something in the eye of that cow which almost inspired me with fear.

Did you notice the way it lashed its tail ?" "Absurd!" "At least," he protested, "you cannot find it absurd that I prefer to sit here with you in the shadow of your lilac trees, to trudging any further along that dusty road ?" "You haven't the slightest right to be here at all," she reminded him.
"I didn't even invite you to come in." He sighed.
"Women have so little sense of consequence," he murmured.

"When you came in through that gate without saying good-bye, I naturally concluded that I was expected to follow, especially as you had just pointed this out to me as being your favorite seat." Again she laughed.

Then she stopped suddenly and looked at him.