"I can," he allowed serenely; "she's a charming creature."
"Sufficiently charming to be charmed by you?"
"So I flatter myself," he said. "I don't know even that I wouldn't put it—to be charmed only by me."
"Ah, that's too superlative," she sighed derisively.
"To be said of any woman? Possibly! You're a woman and you ought to know," he reflected. "But she's the sort of woman one says rather more of than one ought."
"And rather more to than one ought."
"Well, yes, perhaps. One forgets, of course; but I fancy I must have said a good deal."
"She could listen to a good deal, no doubt," said Ethel Vernon slowly.
"She could listen absorbingly," he replied with ardour.
"And you said all you knew?"