Such things never answer, never prosper.

I cannot myself imagine how they, usually so sensible, came in this instance to disregard all dictates of common sense.

I have always looked upon the arrangement as mere nonsense; and I hope you have done the same.

You are free as air--and so am I." She made no answer, but, after a few minutes, when she had regained her self-possession, she said: "The sun is warm on the water--I think we had better return;" and, as they went back, she spoke to him carelessly about the new rage for garden-parties.
"Does she care or not ?" thought Lord Arleigh to himself.

"Is she pleased or not?
I cannot tell; the ways of women are inscrutable.