"Curiosity is something we can't help; otherwise I should not be here, ass that I am! Chivalry isn't all dead. If you are in trouble depend upon me; only I must be back in New York by to-morrow night."
"You will not leave the city. You have no fear?"
"I should not be here else."
"Oh, but you must be imagining all sorts of terrible things."
"I am doing some thinking, I'll admit. How easily a woman can make a fool of a man!"
"Sometimes."
"I am a shining example. How you must have laughed at me! A pretty woman has more power over a man's destiny than all the signs of the Zodiac put together. And it's natural that he should want to kiss her. Isn't it?"
"I am not a man."
"A saint would have tripped. Put yourself in my place—"