"Who else?"
"Don't you know what has become of Mr. Stein?"
"No, why?"
"I only ask for Miss Helen's sake. Do you not see how her big, proud eyes are searching steadily, but unceasingly, all over the salon?"
"You are surely not in earnest?"
"Why not? Is not Mr. Stein a very handsome man? And has not Miss Helen very strange notions?"
"Miss Emily," said Felix, gravely, "will you do me the honor to tell me whether you have any special reasons for such an assertion?"
"Of course I have special reasons."
"And will you have the kindness to mention them?"
"That I cannot."