I thought you'd be interested to hear about them, Ephraim." "I should have thought you'd had too much self-respect to allow him to talk to you like that.

Of course he was trying to work on your feelings." "No, he wasn't, Ephraim.

You are quite as unjust as my aunt to-day.

He wasn't trying to work on my feelings.

He was just--well, he was sorry that my frock got so wet, and he just happened to say the other thing.