"It is like nothing I ever saw anywhere else," said Rose.
"Nor I," assented her companion.
"You see, I have never been just here before," said Rose, turning at the somewhat peculiar tone of voice. "Have you?"
"I am not sure—that I have," said Mr. Bouché, considering with himself whether certain sensations in the region of his heart could possibly (in a cadet of such wide experience) mean something new. "It rather seems to me not. What are you going to lecture me about, Miss Rose?"
"Nothing."
"Oh, yes, you are!" cried Bouché, rousing up. "That's not fair. It is in the bond that you are to lecture."
"Who signed the bond?"
"I—for self and partner," said Bouché audaciously.
"'Himself and he,'" said Rose, quoting Cowper.
