"No; but she is a dark girl, and I don't like dark girls. It was a dark girl that deceived me so heartlessly years ago."
"Ah!"
"And made me hate the whole sex."
"Or only the brunettes?"
"The whole lot."
"Cousin Walter, I thank you in the name of that small company."
"Until I saw you, and you converted me in one day."
"Only to the blondes?"
"Only to one of them. My sweet Mary, the situation is serious. You, whose eye nothing escapes—you must have seen long ago how I love you."
"Never mind what I have seen, Walter," said Mary, whose bosom was beginning to heave.