“Your cleverness is the most lamentable thing about you. Woman used to love a bright fellow many years ago. Do you know that the modern girl woos a stupid man?
“Please, don’t repeat again such an adjective as ‘heavenly’ for my face! No one utters the word ‘heaven’ except in swearing. Even ministers juggle with it for a jest in church, I suppose. My face isn’t heavenly at all. You know it, don’t you?
“You amused me, however, when you told how you had pillaged my picture from Mother Schuyler’s room to put in your own, feigning that it needed to be retouched.
“Poor Mother Schuyler!
“If she knew your secret!
“Frankly, I fear that such a gentleman as you does commit forgery always. Have you no consanguinity with a convict?
“O such a wretched boy!
“The saddest thing about a woman is that she is glad to fall in love with the worthless.
“Do I love you?
“Give me time to reply to the question!