"The true courage would have been to give the house-party."
"But men always insist upon your marrying them at house-parties."
"I see I have much to learn,"—meekly. "And the men are right."
"What an escape I have had!"
"Meaning house-parties, or that I am a gentleman?"
"If you had not been a gentleman! For, of course, you are, since my uncle has so dubbed you. If you had not been a gentleman!"
"If you had not been a lady! If you had been a bunko-steerer! And I do not know that you are not one still. Do you believe me? I kept my hand on my wallet pocket nearly all the time."
"I understood you to say that you were poor."
"Oh, I mean that I am too poor to hunt for excitement in bizarre things."
"Confess that you look upon me with a frank contempt!"—imperiously.