["'I want to gossip with you,' he said abruptly"]
["'Oh, dear,' she said, 'there's somebody down there already'"]
["Dineen slowly revolved his thumbs and squinted at a sunbeam"]
["'Your loyalty to honor deceived a very gentle heart,' he said"]
["That night at dinner she was very gay—a charming, sparkling, bewildering creature"]
["'So *this* is your apartment?' he said"]
["'Health, happiness, prosperity to them'"]
JAPONETTE
CHAPTER I
IN FORMA PAUPERIS