"Lovely!"
"And we shall dine with the gods. And now it is all over and done, it was funny, wasn't it?"
"Terribly funny!"—with a shade of irony. "It would have been funnier still if the real Haggerty hadn't turned up. The patrol had arrived."
"But it didn't happen. I shall never forget this night,"—romantically.
"I should be inordinately glad to forget it completely,"—decidedly.
"Where's your romance?" I asked.
"I'd rather have it served to me between book-covers. As I grow older my love of repose increases."
"Do you know," I began boldly, "it seems that I have known you all my life."
"Indeed!"
"Yes. Why, I might really have known you all my life, and still not have known you as well as I do this very minute,—and less than a dozen hours between this and our first meeting. You are as brave as a paladin, wise as a serpent, cool, witty—and beautiful!"