10/31 She is mortally dull." "One might imagine reasons for the self-sacrifice, I suppose," said De Forest, making a languid snatch at a butterfly fluttering near. "The possibility, we will say, that it might please the gentle old babbler to come under the condescension of your notice. How would that do for a motive ?" "Why should I want to please her ?" insisted Gerald, removing a hideous beetle from her dress with all possible care lest she should hurt it. |