"They're rather pretty." "It was no trouble.

And I hope you don't mind.

It has been great fun." He tried to look casually out upon his people as he answered her.

It seemed to him there was only one thing to say, and that it was a duty to speak what was in his mind calmly and without emotion.
"Yes, I do mind," he said.

"I mind so much that I wouldn't trade what has happened for all the gold in these mountains.