"You will not let me do it for you?"
"No," she answered, smiling.
"You have no pleasure in obedience?"
"Oh, well, only in willing obedience," said she, with a smile.
"It would be very willing—even eager."
"The motive would not be right. But how absurd! I believe——"
"Well, what?"
"That you mean to do it, and are trying to kill two birds with one stone."
"You don't really think that, Miss Delane?"
"No, of course not. Only you were becoming so serious."