Marion was shocked at first; it seemed to her impossible that a man could be so foolish as to mistake a deed like that for chivalry.
"And what has become of your lovely Lady Amelie now ?" she asked.
"She is still the queen of coquettes," replied Basil; "but, Marion, although it was a terrible mistake, and I suffered so bitterly for it, I cannot be altogether sorry that it happened.

I should have been a useless dreamer until the day of my death if this had not taken place.
It was a rude, rough, but sure awakening." "I shall never call you my knight," said Marion.

"Why, Basil, dear, a schoolboy would not have been taken in by such nonsense." "But, Marion, I was not so wise as a schoolboy," he replied.
"She only used you for her own purposes.

She simply made a cat's-paw of you, Basil." "I can see it now, darling, I did not then.

But you will forgive me, Marion ?" "Yes; because, after all, though you were so greatly mistaken, still the faults that led to your mistake were almost virtues." Lady Carruthers was rendered very happy by her son's marriage.