"Should n't you like to travel about and see something of the country?
Won't you go to Niagara?
You ought to see Niagara, you know." "With you, do you mean ?" "I should be delighted to take you." "You alone ?" Acton looked at her, smiling, and yet with a serious air.

"Well, yes; we might go alone," he said.
"If you were not what you are," she answered, "I should feel insulted." "How do you mean--what I am ?" "If you were one of the gentlemen I have been used to all my life.

If you were not a queer Bostonian." "If the gentlemen you have been used to have taught you to expect insults," said Acton, "I am glad I am what I am.

You had much better come to Niagara." "If you wish to 'amuse' me," the Baroness declared, "you need go to no further expense.

You amuse me very effectually." He sat down opposite to her; she still held her fan up to her face, with her eyes only showing above it.