Finally he stooped and took it in his fingers.

"I feel as if this third one was pelted at me, but I shall keep it.

You are rather a cruel person, but, Heaven guard us! that only fastens a man's love the more upon a woman." She laughed.

"That is not a very good thing to tell a woman." "No," he said gravely, "it is not, but then I fancy that somebody may have told you previously." She stared at him, and then said, "I think you are revenged for my serene insolence." "Great heavens, what an armour!" he cried.

"I suppose, after all, I did feel a trifle like a tenor when I first came here, but you have chilled it all out of me.