“Then tell me if you are too engaged to spare me a minute. Any other time will do.”
“You are seriously mistaken, because no other time will do. And nothing about me is ever engaged, as regards you, except my affections, and they are permanently so.”
“I’ve come to ask a great favor of you.”
“Out of the question; but you may tell me what it is.”
“Ah, Donald, say you will grant it before I tell you?”
“Concealment bespeaks a guilty conscience.”
“But sometimes you are so funny and obstinate about things!”
“That is what Mr. Whitely used to say.”
“Don’t mention that wretch’s name to me! To think of that miserable little Western college making him an LL. D. because of your book!”
“Never mind, Maizie; here’s a letter I received an hour ago from Jastrow, which tells me the University of Leipzig is going to give me a degree.”