You do love me, don't you?
How do you know you do ?" "Because I jumped," and the blue eyes smiled at him.

"I jumped because I couldn't help it." "You jumped because you loved me! I oughtn't to have let you do it; good gracious, Patty, you might have broken yourself to bits! I spoke from impulse." "And I jumped from impulse.

And,--I'm glad I did!" "You little Love! Are you?
Patty, how can you love a great, uncouth man like me ?" "You're not uncouth, Little Billee, and you only said that to be contradicted! But I do contradict it.

You're not big and uncouth at all.

Well, I s'pose you _are_ big,--but it's a nice, cunning little bigness----" "There, there, that'll be about all of that! Now, tell me why you ran away from me." "I didn't know at the time.