"But your hair is prettier," said he.
"And you embarrassed me very much by staring as you did, John Aldous!"
"Forgive me. It is—I mean you are—so beautiful."
"And you are sometimes—most displeasing," said she. "Your ingenuousness, John Aldous, is shocking!"
"Forgive me," he said again.
"And you have known me but two days," she added.
"Two days—is a long time," he argued. "One can be born, and live, and die in two days. Besides, our trails have crossed for years."
"But—it displeases me."
"What I have said?"
"Yes."