"You are like the tall queenly lilies." He paused, for Valentine was looking at him with a wondering smile.
"Do you know you have paid me two compliments in less than five minutes ?" she said.

"And yesterday we agreed that between true friends they were quite unnecessary." "I--I did not intend to pay idle compliments," he replied.

"I merely said what I thought.

You are like a tall, grand, white lily, Miss Charteris.

I have often thought so.