It is hardly possible that I should have learned to love her as I do without some consciousness on her part that it is so." "What I mean is, without any beating about the bush,--have you been making love to her ?" "Who is to say in what making love consists, Mr.Wharton ?" "D---- it, sir, a gentleman knows.

A gentleman knows whether he has been playing on a girl's feelings, and a gentleman, when he is asked as I have asked you, will at any rate tell the truth.

I don't want any definitions.

Have you been making love to her ?" "I think, Mr.Wharton, that I have behaved like a gentleman; and that you will acknowledge at least so much when you come to know exactly what I have done and what I have not done.

I have endeavoured to commend myself to your daughter, but I have never spoken a word of love to her." "Does Everett know of all this ?" "Yes." "And has he encouraged it ?" "He knows of it, because he is my most intimate friend.