I willed him hard to love me.
"It made me happy to get it," I went on.
"It made me happy to send it," he said.
"Does it please you to do things for me ?" I asked.
"Why, of course." "You do like poor little me a tiny bit, then ?" I couldn't help adding--"Even though I'm different from other girls ?" "Perhaps more for that reason," he said, with his voice as kind as his eyes.
"Oh, what shall I do if you go away!" I burst out, partly because I really meant it, and partly because I hoped it might lead him on to say what I wanted so much to hear.

"Suppose you get that consulship at Algiers." "I hope I may," he said quickly.

"A consulship isn't a very great thing--but--it's a beginning.

I want it badly." "I wish I had some influence with the Foreign Secretary," said I, not telling him that the man actually dislikes me, and looks at me as if I were a toad.

"Of course, he's Lord Mountstuart's cousin, and brother-in-law as well, and that makes him seem quite in the family, doesn't it?
But it isn't as if I were really related to Lady Mountstuart.