“Oh, never!” exclaimed Marion. “A lovely woman doesn’t woo, she is wooed!”
“What are you looking for, perfection in rhetorical figure? This is extemporaneous.”
“But it won’t do!”
“And asks to be conquered,” suggested Whispering Smith.
“Asks! Oh, scandalous, Mr. Smith!”
“It is easy to see why he never could get any one to marry him,” declared McCloud over the bacon.
“Hold on, then! Like lovely woman, it does not seek us, we seek it,” persisted the orator, “That at least is so, isn’t it?”
“It is better,” assented Marion.
“And it waits to be conquered. How is that?”