"Is there so much difference, after all, where one is sold, just so long as the price is satisfactory to all concerned ?" "You are very unkind, Mr.Chase," she said with quiet dignity.

"I do not deserve your sarcasm." "I humbly plead for forgiveness," he said, suddenly contrite.

"It was beastly." "American wit, I imagine you call it," she said scornfully.

"I don't care to talk with you any longer." "Won't you forgive me?
I'm a poor brute--don't lash me.

In two or three weeks I'll step down and out of your life; that will be penalty enough, don't you think ?" "For whom ?" she asked in a voice so low that he could scarcely hear the words.