"You? But you calls yourself a coward!"
"To be sure I did, and very properly, because I was greatly afraid of a ruffian with a bludgeon and fled accordingly. But I do not fear devils in the least."
"Because you don't know—"
"There you are quite wrong!" said I, patting the hand I still held and noting its strength and shapeliness. "For, and apprehend me, Diana, we all, each one of us, possess a devil large or small, and my own is uncomfortably big and strong occasionally, and very difficult to overcome. But this is what devils are for—"
"You're flamming me!" she cried angrily and snatched her hand away.
"A very unpleasing word! Pray what does it signify?"
"You're gammoning—"
"That is rather worse—"
"You're making game o' me!"
"On the contrary, I'm very serious! Don't you see, Diana, that all demons and devils are a means to our ultimate good?"