"Let us hope not."
"Oh, Frank!"
"They were, no doubt, as fanatic and foolish as you please. If you will read to the end—"
"I have read it all,—every word of it," said Lizzie, enthusiastically.
"Then you know that Arthur did not go on the search, because he had a job of work to do, by the doing of which the people around him might perhaps be somewhat benefited."
"I like Launcelot better than Arthur," said Lizzie.
"So did the Queen," replied Frank.
"Your useful, practical man, who attends vestries, and sits at Boards, and measures out his gifts to others by the ounce, never has any heart. Has he, Frank?"
"I don't know what heart means. I sometimes fancy that it is a talent for getting into debt, and running away with other men's wives."
"You say that on purpose to make me quarrel with you. You don't run away with other men's wives, and you have heart."