But I observed that even the working man who sang at the concert last night was received--I do not say intentionally--with a cordiality which might have tempted a more humbly disposed person than he seemed to be to forget----" Here Douglas, seeing Marian's bearing change suddenly, hesitated.

Her beautiful gray eyes, always pleading for peace like those of a good angel, were now full of reproach; and her mouth, but for those eyes, would have suggested that she was at heart an obstinate woman.
"Sholto," she said, "I dont know what to say to you.

If this is jealousy, it may be very flattering; but it is ridiculous.

If it is a lecture, seriously intended, it is--it is really most insulting.

What do you mean by my having given you unequivocal signs of regard?
Of course I think of you very differently from the chance acquaintances I make in society.