"You never saw anything like that before." "Isn't it nice ?" she answered.
"You can have it if you want it," he remarked.
"That's a pretty ring you have," he said, touching a commonplace setting which adorned the hand holding the card he had given her.
"Do you think so ?" "That's right," he answered, making use of a pretence at examination to secure her finger.

"That's fine." The ice being thus broken, he launched into further observation pretending to forget that her fingers were still retained by his.

She soon withdrew them, however, and retreated a few feet to rest against the window-sill.
"I didn't see you for a long time," she said, coquettishly, repulsing one of his exuberant approaches.

"You must have been away." "I was," said Drouet.
"Do you travel far ?" "Pretty far--yes." "Do you like it ?" "Oh, not very well.

You get tired of it after a while." "I wish I could travel," said the girl, gazing idly out of the window.
"What has become of your friend, Mr.Hurstwood ?" she suddenly asked, bethinking herself of the manager, who, from her own observation, seemed to contain promising material.
"He's here in town.