"I want you to be interested," she retorted.
"You think me such an egotist?"
"I think all successful people are egotists. Success isn't an accident, it is plan and work. You have to focus in on yourself all the time to belong to the master-class."
"You don't talk about yourself—you're a success."
"Oh, we'll come to me. It's all 'quiet along the Potomac' with me just now, but you're going into action."
"Think of the egotists who are not a success."
"Well, of course, a man who is merely in love with himself is in danger of a mésalliance," she added, laughing.
"Go on! What is the saving grace for your egotists?"
"I hate to be so bromidic."
"I'm used to it."