"True; or hope that somebody else will give him even a more satisfying meal."
"You could always turn a woman's phrases, Alexis."
"And you a man's head, Paula."
"Bah! I have not come here to cap phrases."
"Yet there can be little else than phrases between us for the future. You have shewn me what store you set on my life."
"Did you think I could love you if you were such a coward that you dared not fight a duel?"
"You thought I dared not when you refused to help me."
"You said you dared not. But do you think I believed you? Could I believe so meanly of the man I loved?"
"You discussed the matter as if you believed it," said I; making a leap in the dark and blundering badly.
"Discussed it? What do you mean? With whom? Do you think I am mad? I sat down at once and answered your mad letter in the only way it could be answered."