"Can you part with any of them?"
"That depends," she replied, with a manner as brusque as his own.
"On what?"
"The inducements and natural opportunities. I'm not going to recite a lesson like a schoolgirl."
"One would think you had been to school."
"I have, where much is taught and learned thoroughly."
"Now, that is enigmatical again."
"The best of the books you sent me left some room for the imagination."
"Ha, ha, ha, Madge! you are scoring points right along. I told you,
Graydon, that you couldn't understand her in a moment or in a week."
"I never regarded your imagination as rampant, Henry. Have you fathomed all her mystery?"