"Certainly; how could I have forgotten it? I must have been thinking of the animated picture there. What is paint, when one sees such a glowing, glancing, fascinating, arch, lovely, tantalizing"—
"Don't! Don't pelt me with your parts of speech!"
"I was trying to select the right adjective."
"Well, you need not shower down a basketful, merely to pick out one."
"But confess, now, you are merely the least captivated?"
"Not the least."
"No little palpitations at the sound of her name? No short breath nor upturned eyes? No vague longings nor 'billowy unrest'?"
"None."
"You slept well last night?"
"Perfectly."