No one calls me that now, except you, Grizel." "What does that matter," she replied distressfully, "if it is true?
In the definition of sentimentality in the dictionary--" He rose indignantly.

"You have been looking me up in the dictionary, have you, Grizel ?" "Yes, the night you told me you had hurt your ankle intentionally." He laughed, without mirth now.

"I thought you had put that down to vanity." "I think," she said, "it was vanity that gave you the courage to do it." And he liked one word in this remark.
"Then you do give me credit for a little courage ?" "I think you could do the most courageous things," she told him, "so long as there was no real reason why you should do them." It was a shot that rang the bell.

Oh, our Tommy heard it ringing.

But, to do him justice, he bore no malice; he was proud, rather, of Grizel's marksmanship.