Isn't that a man's ideal of an affair with a pretty woman ?" He laughed: "I suppose so." "So do I.You are no novice, are you--as I am ?" "Are you a novice, Rosalie ?" "Yes, I am.

You probably don't believe it.

It is absurd, isn't it, considering these lonely years--considering what he has done--that I haven't anything with which to reproach myself." "It is very admirable," he said.
"Oh, yes, theoretically.

I was too fastidious--perhaps a little bit too decent.

It's curious how inculcated morals and early precepts make mountains out of what is really very simple travelling.