"You don't seem to me as though you cared to make friends very easily.

I just felt I wanted to ask you.

Have you ever been engaged ?" "Never," he assured her.
"And when was the last time," she asked, "that you felt you cared a little for any one ?" "It dates from the day before yesterday," he declared, filling her glass.
She laughed at him.
"Of course, it is nonsense to talk to you like this!" she said.
"You are quite right to make fun of me." "On the contrary," he insisted.

"I am very much in earnest." "Very well, then," she answered, "if you are in earnest you shall be in love with me.

You shall take me about, give me supper every night, send me some sweets and cigarettes to the theatre--oh, and there are heaps of things you ought to do if you really mean it!" she wound up.
"If those things mean being fond of you," he answered, "I'll prove it with pleasure.