"Ah, you don't know it, or you wouldn't ask! Everything, my dear. Rome has a good deal, certainly, but Paris has everything. Now tell me,—are you engaged?"
"I? No. Of course not."
"I don't see why it's of course. Most people are at one time or another; and I didn't know but your time had come."
"No," said Dolly. "Neither the time nor the man. I've come to hear about yours."
"If he's good, you'll see him; the man, I mean. He promised to be with us at Christmas, if he could; and he always keeps his promises."
"That's a good thing," said Dolly. .
"Ye-s," said Christina, "that is, of course, a good thing. One likes to have promises kept. But it is possible to have too much of a good thing."
"Not of keeping promises!" said Dolly in unfeigned astonishment.
"I don't know," said Christina. "Sandie is so fixed in everything; he holds to his opinions and his promises and his expectations; and he holds a trifle too fast."
"He has a right to hold to his expectations, surely," said Dolly, laughing.