He had no diplomacy, he had only purpose.
He came over to her.

"If I had gone to South Africa would you have remembered my name for a month ?" he asked with determination and meaning.
"My friends never suffer lunar eclipse," she answered, gaily.

"Dear sir, I am called Hold-Fast.

My friends are century-flowers and are always blooming." "You count me among your friends ?" "I hope so.

You will let me make all England envious of me, won't you?
I never did you any harm, and I do want to have a hero in my tiny circle." "A hero--you mean me?
Well, I begin to think I have some courage when I ask you to let me inside your 'tiny' circle.