"That is odd. Then you do not wish to marry?"
"I never will."
"And will never love?"
"Never."
"Not even a friend?"
"Not as women understand the phrase."
"Bah! If you were to go to Paris, and Louis XV., that gallant knight——"
"I do not like kings, captain; and, least of all, gallant kings."
"Ah! I understand. You like pages best. A young cavalier like Trenck, for instance."
"I never thought of his face."