I feel that I might more safely trust myself with ravening wolves than with men in general, but _you_ are different.

_You_ have had a good mother." "Yes, ma'am, I have," I responded, rather warmly.
I was pleased at her commendation of me and mother, but puzzled as to the character of the danger to which she referred.

I finally concluded that she was afraid of being robbed, and I put my lips close to her ear, so that no one should overhear us, and asked: "Do you carry your money about you ?--you ought not to run such a risk.
I've been told there are always one or more thieves on every express train." "My dear young friend," she whispered back, very, very close in my ear, "I was not thinking of money--_that_ is all in checks, safely deposited in--in--in te-he! inside the lining of my waist.

I was only referring to the dangers which ever beset the unmarried lady, especially the unsophisticated maiden, far, far from her native village.

Why, would you believe it, already, sir, since I left home, a man, a _gentleman_, sitting in the very seat where you sit now, made love to me, out-and-out!" "Made love to you ?" I stammered, shrinking into the farthest corner, and regarding her with undisguised astonishment.
"You may well appear surprised.