She leaned forward suddenly and looked me in the eye. "It's only the commencement, the thin edge of the wedge."
"Oh!"
She began speaking through her teeth. "I'll make a man of him yet if I have to beggar him in the process."
"I beg you to excuse me."
She fell back and began to laugh. "Oh, how solemn you are. You disapprove of me. Ha! ha! ha! You don't even begin to hide it."
"You see I do not understand you."
"Yet you disapprove?"
"No. I wonder."
"You are a man, Doctor, that one can't help trusting!" She stood up and began to move about the room. "I am going to confide in you," she announced, stopping suddenly.
"A dangerous experiment," I observed.