I've always despised women who cannot make up their minds whether they care for a man or not.

But you have found out my secret; I am two people in one, and there are days when each makes the other dreadfully uncomfortable! You understand.' 'And it's the Cordova that neither likes me nor hates me just at this moment,' suggested Logotheti.

'Margaret Donne sometimes hates me and sometimes likes me, and on some days she can be quite indifferent too! Is that it ?' 'Yes.

That's it.' 'The only question is, which of you is to be mistress of the house,' said Logotheti, smiling, 'and whether it is to be always the same one, or if there is to be a perpetual hide-and-seek between them!' 'Box and Cox,' suggested Margaret, glad of the chance to say something frivolous just then.
'I should say Hera and Aphrodite,' answered the Greek, 'if it did not look like comparing myself to Adonis!' 'It sounds better than Box and Cox, but I have forgotten my mythology.' 'Hera and Aphrodite agreed that each should keep Adonis one-third of the year, and that he should have the odd four months to himself.

Now that you are the Cordova, if you could come to some such understanding about me with Miss Donne, it would be very satisfactory.