However, I dare say we shall yet meet in the arena, so I must not betray my weak points.

How is it, Maltravers, that they see so little of you at the rectory?
You are a great favourite there.

Have you any living that Charley Merton could hold with his own?
You shake your head.

And what think you of Miss Cameron, my intended ?" "You speak lightly.

Perhaps you--" "Feel deeply,--you were going to say.