“Yes, for a man like you.”
“Be careful, or I shall interpret that as a compliment, if you don’t change the form of your sentence.”
“You may interpret it as you like,” returned she. “I repeat that it is quite possible that your looks, your size, your manner, and your adventures might be very dazzling to a girl, who,” she added relentlessly, “did not know much about you.”
“But every one here seems to know everything about me, to judge by their disapproving glances.”
“I don’t believe that Louisa does. But I tell you frankly, Bob, if you go there again——”
“Another threat, Nellie? I never knew any one who believed so completely in government by threat.”
“How else can I treat you?”
“Well, you might try being a little bit nice to me. Don’t you think that would be rather more likely to make me stay at home? But to be left alone in the garden, while you and Emmons——”
“You do not need to be told that you were at liberty to join us.”
“Ay, there’s a prospect to keep a man at home. Three of us, so congenial, sitting up making conversation. A dangerously alluring proposition, Nellie, upon my word!”