"I'm expecting a young lady to call here to-day."
"A young lady?"
"Yes, and I wish you'd wait and see her."
"I shall be charmed."
"You will when you see her—but it's not that. See here, Verneede, I want to explain her to you."
"I listen."
"She's quite unlike any one else."
"Ha!"
"I mean in this way, she's so jolly and innocent and altogether good, that upon my word I wish she wasn't coming here alone."
"You fear to trust yourself——"