"You must not let me bore you, or rather you must not bore yourself with me," said Arden to Laura, after a short pause in the conversation. "You are altogether much too good to me."
"You never bore me," answered the young girl. "You are one of the few people who do not."
Arden smiled a little sadly.
"I am glad to be one of the 'few people,'" he said, "even if I am the last."
"You are too modest." She tried to laugh, but the effort was not very successful.
"No, I am not. I have much more vanity than you would suppose, or think possible, considering how little I have to be vain of."
"Opinions may differ about that," answered Laura, looking into his eyes. "You have much that many men might envy, and probably do."
"What, for instance?"
Laura hesitated, and then smiled, without effort this time.
"You are very good looking," she said after a moment.