Why did you say so much if you did not mean it, Philippa ?" "Because you annoyed me by pleading the cause of the duke.

He had no right to ask you to do such a thing, and you were unwise to essay such a task.

I have punished you by mystifying you--I shall next punish him." "Then you did not mean all that you said ?" he interrogated, still wondering at this unexpected turn of events.
"I should have given you credit for more penetration, Norman," she replied.

"I to mean such nonsense--I to avow a preference for any man! Can you have been so foolish as to think so?
It was only a charade, acted for your amusement." "Oh, Philippa," he cried, "I am so pleased, dear! And yet--yet, do you know, I wish that you had not done it.

It has given me a shock.