A laugh came over his handsome, happy young face.
"I do not know. I am inclined to think the opposite."
"I do not understand what you would call etiquette; but I am quite sure you would never ask one."
"I am not sure. If I had met one in what you are pleased to call my rank of life last night by the mill-stream, looking as you looked, I am quite sure that I should ask her to walk with me and talk with me at any time."
"I should like to see your world," she said. "I know the world of the poor and the middle class, but I do not know yours."
"You will know some day," he said, quietly. "Do not be angry with me if I tell you that in all my world I have never seen one like you. Do not be angry, I am not flattering you, I am saying just what I think."
"Why do you think that some day I may see your world?" she asked.
"Because with your face you are sure to marry well," he replied.
"I shall marry where I love," said Leone.
"And you may love where you will," he replied; "no man will ever resist you."