"After a time—when you have revenged yourself sufficiently."
"Revenged myself!" she quoted. "For what, pray?"
"For my blindness——"
She laughed, a light, alluring laugh. "Revenge is for a wrong done.—You have not wronged me. You have always been my good friend—the best friend a woman ever had."
He moved to catch her; she eluded him and sprang away, out of distance.
"Fie! Mr. Maynadier, you forget the dignity due a Governor's Councillor."
"I am apt to forget many things," said he, laughing, "with such a teasing beauty just out of reach."
"Where she will take care to hold herself until you are better mannered. What has come over you, Dick, you used to be proper enough—too proper, indeed."
"You little flirt!" he exclaimed, "what has come over you, you better say—where did you learn such tricks?"