Why, I actually believe I might fall in love with you again if I were to receive the slightest encouragement." "I do not think I am offering you any." "Hardly; even my egotism will not permit me to believe so.

An iceberg would seem warm in comparison.

Yet, at least, there is no present occasion for our quarrelling.

Sit down." "Thank you, I prefer to remain standing.

I presume whatever you may desire to say will not require much time ?" Farnham leaned forward, decidedly jarred from out his assumed mood of cold sarcasm.