"Is it possible that you have ventured among those poisonous plants again ?" he said.

"Are you ill ?" "Not at all," she replied, rousing herself a little.

"Your solicitude is quite thrown away.

I am perfectly well." "I beg your pardon," he said, snubbed.

"I thought--Don't you think it dangerous to sit on that damp wall ?" "It is not damp.