"Engaged, Miss Nina?"
"Engaged!—Yes, to be sure! Why not?"
"It seems to me that's a very serious thing, Miss Nina."
"Serious!—ha! ha! ha!" said the little beauty, seating herself on one arm of the sofa, and shaking the glittering hat back from her eyes. "Well, I fancy it was—to him, at least. I made him serious, I can tell you!"
"But is this true, Miss Nina? Are you really engaged?"
"Yes, to be sure I am—to three gentlemen; and going to stay so till I find which I like best. May be, you know, I shan't like any of them."
"Engaged to three gentlemen, Miss Nina?"
"To be sure!—Can't you understand English, Harry? I am now—fact."
"Miss Nina, is that right?"
"Right?—why not? I don't know which to take—I positively don't; so I took them all on trial, you know."