"Yes, you do, I won't deny it." Clover was a trifle ashamed of having been caught in her loving ebullition toward the soft bronze, and was willing to laugh it away.
"Still it is interesting," Page went on musingly, "to observe how affection is outward with women and inward with men."
"That doesn't sound complimentary to us, Mr. Page. I hope you mean well."
Gorham's pensive eyes met her merry ones. "Yes. I revere the wise arrangement by which it takes a man and a woman to make one complete being; and the more I observe and understand refined human nature, the more I think I see the possibilities, and what it was intended that marriage should be. You are a good walker, Mrs. Van Tassel."
"Yes; I am thinking how impatient Mildred and Jack will be with me. I will give you a subject for your analytical mind. Make a record of the broken appointments at the World's Fair and discover the reasons for them. You would have a psychological study of absorbing interest."
"All phases of human nature are interesting."
"Even that where vials of righteous wrath are poured out upon you for delinquency when you know you haven't any defense to offer? You are my defense this time."
"What do you want me to say?"
"Oh, I wouldn't trust you to say anything. I am morally certain that you would tell the truth."
"That isn't so very damaging, is it?"