"Oh, come now, that's nonsense. I can get up as early as anybody else. I have changed all that for the last four months. I was at breakfast this morning very soon after ten."
"What a miracle! Is there anything I can do for you?"
"Well yes,—there is. Of course you are surprised to see me?"
"You never were here before; and therefore it is odd."
"It is odd; I felt that myself. And when I tell you what I have come about you will think it more odd. I know I can trust you with a secret."
"That depends, Dolly."
"What I mean is, I know you are good-natured. There are ever so many fellows that are one's most intimate friends, that would say anything on earth they could that was ill-natured."
"I hope they are not my friends."
"Oh yes, they are. Think of Glasslough, or Popplecourt, or Hindes! If they knew anything about you that you didn't want to have known,—about a young lady or anything of that kind,—don't you think they'd tell everybody?"
"A man can't tell anything he doesn't know."