"Pray don't let Miss Arlington hear you say so, or she will never forgive me."
"Oh never fear, she would not believe it, but I will be careful, as she is already dreadfully jealous of you."
"Of me, how can she be, why should she."
"She has cause enough," he replied warmly, "but she should be more magnanimous."
"I don't think it possible, I cannot imagine she could be so silly."
"It is plain enough to me, that she is."
"I don't see it, I confess."
"'Where ignorance is bliss,'
he replied, with one of his usual penetrating glances. "Yours must be a very happily constituted mind to be so unconscious of all things disagreeable."
"Not quite so unconscious as you imagine, but I advise you not to fish into troubled waters."