"Shall we swell the number?"
"Not unless you wish it."
"I don't. I wish something else very much. Will you answer as meekly and civilly when I ask it?"
They had begun again their walk eastward.
"I don't know."
"Oh, that is not encouraging."
"It is wise, though. I was brought up never to be afraid to confess that I didn't know a thing."
"I want you to go with me in a gondola. Compare my humility with Robert Page's sang-froid."
"A gondola will be even more difficult to catch by this time than a horse-car," suggested the girl.
Jack looked at her, but her piquant smiling face taught him renewed patience.