Let me get your cloak and call a cab." Marian laughed.

"Thank you, Sholto," she said; "but I assure you I am quite happy.

Pray do not look offended because I am not so uncomfortable as you think I ought to be." "I am glad you are happy," said Douglas in his former cold tone.
"Perhaps my presence is rather a drawback to your enjoyment than otherwise." "I told you not to come, Sholto; but you would.

Why not adapt yourself to the circumstances, and be agreeable ?" "I am not conscious of being disagreeable." "I did not mean that.

Only I do not like to see you making an enemy of every one in the room, and forcing me to say things that I know must hurt you." "To the enmity of your new associates I am supremely indifferent, Marian.