"Burying your wonderful powers in the petty life of a village."
"Look here, Doris. I mean to give you a fair hearing, though it is too late to change my plans, even if I wished to, which I don't; but suppose we drop my 'wonderful powers'? I fancy that theory is played out."
"All the examiners in the world could not change my opinion on that score. But we will not discuss the point. Taking you as you stand——"
"Five feet five in my stockings——"
"Please do not be frivolous. Taking you as you stand—a woman of education, culture, and refinement——"
"Youth, beauty, and boundless wealth—go on! Word-painting is cheap."
"I thought you were going to give me a fair hearing?"
"So I will, dear. Forgive me!"
"It used to be a favourite theory of yours that 'every man truly lives so long as he acts himself, or in any way makes good the faculties of himself.'"
"So it is still, now that you remind me of it. Après?"