I may have been ridiculous.

Catherine evidently found me so, for, after gauging me with that wry but humourous look which I knew so well of old, for which I had been waiting this afternoon, she went off into the decorous little fit of laughter in which it had invariably ended.
"Forgive me, Duncan dear! But you do look so serious, and you _are_ so dreadfully broad! I never was.

I hope you remember that?
Broad minds and easy principles--the combination is inevitable.

But, really though, Duncan, is there anything to be said for her?
Was she a possible person, in any sense of the word ?" "Quite a probable person," I assured Catherine.
"But I have heard all sorts of things about her!" "From Bob ?" "No, he never mentioned her." "Nor me, perhaps ?" "Nor you, Duncan.

I am afraid there may be just a drop of bad blood there! You see, he looked upon you as a successful rival.