"That's what you want to believe, is it ?" "I?
Of course not!" Piers laughed again.

"I never wished any girl engaged yet." "Save one," suggested Ina, and an odd little gleam hovered behind her lashes with the words.

"Why won't you tell me her name?
You might as well." "Why ?" said Piers.
"I shall find it out in any case," she assured him.

"I know already that she dwells under the Vicar's virtuous roof, and that the worthy Dr.Tudor finds it necessary to drop in every day.

I suppose she is the nurse-cook-housekeeper of that establishment." "I say, how clever of you!" said Piers.
The girl laughed carelessly.