“That sounds very impartial.”
“It is impartial. I'm a purely disinterested spectator.”
“Oh, quite.”
“And don't you suppose I understand Mr. and Mrs. Pasmer quite as well as you do? All I say is that Alice is simply the noblest girl that ever breathed, and—”
“Now you're talking sense, Dan!”
“Well, what are you going to say when you get home, Eunice? Come!”
“That we had better make the best of it.”
“And what else?”
“That you're hopelessly infatuated; and that she will twist you round her finger.”
“Well?”