I am not heartless, I am only unwise; and you are so superior to the people about you; I could not help appreciating you, and I thought you knew I was engaged, and so I was less on my guard.

I hope I shall not lose your esteem, though I have no right to anything more.

Ah! I see by your face I have behaved very ill: pray forgive me." And with this she turned on the waters of the Nile, better known to you, perhaps, as "crocodile tears." Falcon was a gentleman on the surface, and knew he should only make matters worse by quarrelling with her.

So he ground his teeth, and said, "May your own heart never feel the pangs you have inflicted.

I shall love you and remember you till my dying day." He bowed ceremoniously and left her.
"Ay," said he to himself, "I WILL remember you, you heartless jilt, and the man you have jilted me for.