He guessed the reason.
"That young man will get himself thoroughly kicked some day," he observed; "I'm not sure that I oughtn't to have done it myself just now.
He annoyed you, I'm afraid." Mary-'Gusta answered without looking at him.
"That's all right," she said.

"I'm foolish, I guess.

He meant to be nice, perhaps.

Some girls may like that sort of niceness; I don't." "Why didn't you tell him to get out ?" "I wanted to see his samples.

It is time for us to buy our Christmas things and I had rather choose them myself, that's all." "Oh! But Mr.Hamilton or the Captain--I should think--" "Oh, they might have bought some that we couldn't sell." "The beauty-boxes, for instance ?" Mary-'Gusta smiled.