He was wild about me,--is now, for that matter.

He perfectly haunts my rooms, and is always teasing me to ride with him." "Well, Lillie, if I were you, I wouldn't have any thing to do with him." "John, I don't mean to, any more than I can help.

I try to keep him off all I can; but one doesn't want to be rude, you know." "My darling," said John, "you little know the wickedness of the world, and the cruel things that men will allow themselves to say of women who are meaning no harm.

You can't be too careful, Lillie." "Oh! I am careful.

Mamma is here, you know, all the while; and I never receive except she is present." John sat abstractedly fingering the various objects on the table; then he opened a drawer in the same mechanical manner.
"Why, Lillie! what's this?
what in the world are these ?" "O John! sure enough! well, there is something I was going to ask you about.