But you're very beautiful yourself," he added with a politeness by no means crudely jocular and with the happy consciousness that his advanced age gave him the privilege of saying such things--even to young persons who might possibly take alarm at them.
What degree of alarm this young person took need not be exactly measured; she instantly rose, however, with a blush which was not a refutation.

"Oh yes, of course I'm lovely!" she returned with a quick laugh.

"How old is your house?
Is it Elizabethan ?" "It's early Tudor," said Ralph Touchett.
She turned toward him, watching his face.

"Early Tudor?
How very delightful! And I suppose there are a great many others." "There are many much better ones." "Don't say that, my son!" the old man protested.

"There's nothing better than this." "I've got a very good one; I think in some respects it's rather better," said Lord Warburton, who as yet had not spoken, but who had kept an attentive eye upon Miss Archer.