"You are very forgetful.

Did I not tell you that we Presbyterians are never guilty of such indiscretions ?" "I believe you did, but I doubt your complete surrender to the creed." "Doubt! Only our second time of meeting, and you already venture to doubt! This can scarcely be construed into a compliment, I fear." "Yet to my mind it may prove the very highest type of compliment," he returned, reassured by her manner.

"For a certain degree of independence in both thought and action is highly commendable.

Indeed, I am going to be bold enough to add that it was these very attributes that awakened my interest in you." "Oh, indeed; you cause me to blush already.

My frankness, I fear, bids fair to cost me all my friends, and I may even go beyond your pardon, if the perverse spirit of my nature so move me." "The risk of such a catastrophe is mine, and I would gladly dare that much to get away from conventional commonplace.