'More shame for you then, but you know quite well, you were laughing at Lady Dadford, and what's worse you tried to make me, I hope you are not in the habit of laughing at people, are you? Because if you are I shall certainly not'—
'What?'
'Marry you.'
'Will you throw me over a second time; you will soon become expert at it?'
'Jimmy,' cries she, 'how can you talk like that.'
'You suggested it first,' says he.
'I said so conditionally.'
'Yes, and that was that I must not smile at anybody, and suppose I cannot help it, it being my nature to do so?'
Miss Seaton looks up at him and says, 'I sha'n't marry you, that's all'
'All,' repeats he, 'it's a good deal, I don't know what you could call more.'