"What do you mean? Are you hinting?"
The girl smiled too, and somehow her expression was not so exasperating as at other times.
"Yes, I am hinting."
"Out with it, then. Speak up like a little man."
"Sometimes when I have spoken up like a little man you have made me feel like a little donkey."
"I don't see how you can like me at all, Jack," returned Mildred naïvely. "I made up my mind this morning that I was going to try to be more like Clover."
"Capital scheme!" exclaimed Van Tassel, with so much enthusiasm that Mildred felt disconcerted.
"I don't suppose the leopard can change his spots, though," she returned, rather stiffly.
"Let us go to Hagenbeck's and see," suggested Jack.
"It is rather far from here if we are going to do the shows with any system."