Spare me!' 'Oh, I'm sure there's no harm in you, Mr.Keene.I suppose you'd better go and see after your--your business.' 'You are right.

I go at once, Princess.

I may call you Princess ?' 'Well, I don't know about that.

Of course only when there's no one else in the room.' 'But I shall think it always.' 'That I can't prevent, you know.' 'Ah, I fear you mean nothing, Miss Mutimer.' 'Nothing at all.' He took his leave, and Alice enjoyed reflecting upon the dialogue, which certainly had meant nothing for her in any graver sense.
'Now, that's what the books call _flirtation_,' she said to herself.

'I think I can do that.' And on the whole she could, vastly better than might have been expected of her birth and breeding.
At six o'clock a note was delivered for her.