The least I can do is not to misinterpret you, on my side.
Am I to understand, Mr.Morris--you won't think the worse of me, I hope, if I speak plainly--am I to understand that you are in love with me ?" "Yes, Miss Emily--if you please." He had answered with the quaint gravity which was peculiar to him; but he was already conscious of a sense of discouragement.

Her composure was a bad sign--from his point of view.
"My time will come, I daresay," she proceeded.

"At present I know nothing of love, by experience; I only know what some of my schoolfellows talk about in secret.

Judging by what they tell me, a girl blushes when her lover pleads with her to favor his addresses.

Am I blushing ?" "Must I speak plainly, too ?" Alban asked.
"If you have no objection," she answered, as composedly as if she had been addressing her grandfather.
"Then, Miss Emily, I must say--you are not blushing." She went on.