We have been out so long; but I will have pity on you, and detain you no longer here.

Turn the boat around, Lieutenant Seymour, and put me on shore at once.

I will stand between no man and his dinner." "Hungry?
Yes, I am, but not for dinner,--for you, Mistress Katharine," he replied.
"Oh, what a horrid appetite! I don't feel safe in the boat with you.
Are you very hungry ?" "Really, Miss Wilton, I am not jesting at all," he said with immense dignity.
"Oh! oh! He is in earnest.

Shall I scream?
No use; we are a mile from the house, at least." "Oh, Miss Wilton--Katharine," he replied desperately, "I am devoured by my--" "Lieutenant Seymour!" She drew herself up with great hauteur, letting the cloak drop about her waist.
"Madam!" "Only my friends call me Katharine." "And am I not, may I not be, one of your friends ?" "Well, yes--I suppose so; but you are so young." "I am just twenty-seven, madam, and you, I suppose, are--" "Never be ungallant enough to suppose a young lady's age.

You may do those things in Philadelphia, if you like, but 't is not the custom here.