Madam, I am that wicked, wanton, wily fox, that whipper-snapper, that unmitigated bounder--Nap Errol!" He made the announcement with supreme complacence.

It was evident that he felt not the faintest anxiety as to how she would receive it.

There was even a certain careless hauteur about him as though the qualities he thus frankly enumerated were to him a source of pride.
She heard him with no sign of astonishment.

"I knew it," she said quietly.

"I have known you by sight for some time." "And you were not afraid to speak to such a dangerous scoundrel ?" he said.
"You don't strike me as being very formidable," she answered.