"Why don't you speak up for your friend ?" "I am quite ready to speak for my friend," said Bernard, "but I am not ready to speak for Miss Vivian." "Well, I am," Blanche declared.

"She won't marry him." "If she does n't, I 'll eat my hat!" said Captain Lovelock.

"What do you mean," he went on, "by saying that in America a pretty girl's mother does n't care for a young fellow's property ?" "Well, they don't--we consider that dreadful.

Why don't you say so, Mr.Longueville ?" Blanche demanded.

"I never saw any one take things so quietly.