"My subjection could not have been more complete."
"Do you make speeches like that to Helen?"
"If I do it is with less inspiration!"
"You must stop chaffing me. I am not sixty-five for nothing and I don't think you are naturally disrespectful."
When we reached the boat-house she took a chair on the little veranda and smiled as though something greatly amused her.
"Mr. Donovan—I am sixty-five, as I have said before—may I call you—"
"Larry! and gladden me forever!"
"Then, Larry, what a lot of frauds we all are!"
"I suppose we are," I admitted doubtfully, not sure where the joke lay.
"You have been trying to be very kind to me, haven't you?"