"You would not lend them to your sisters, I presume?" adopting her well-known quarrelsome attitude, "though you offer them to me."
"Oh, I've no sisters, thank the Lord! As to offering the books—you might have jumped at them. I did not know what sort you were. You see, a fellow never can tell——"
"I see Verona looking this way. She is coming to fetch me——"
"Er—is she your keeper? Has she got you on the chain?"
"No; I should pity her if she had!"
"Then you and I are in sympathy—a pair of bold, independent spirits. When shall I see you again—Dom?"
"Perhaps to-morrow at the Club."
"Oh, so you come to the Club. Hurrah!"
"Yes, for books and tennis; but we are complete outsiders, as you will soon discover."
"You will never be an outsider to me, Dom—already you have your place——"