"Are you a mind-reader ?" "Why ?" "How did you know I was thinking you were different from my cousin, Mildred Palmer ?" "What makes you think I DID know it ?" "Nonsense!" he said.

"You knew what I was thinking and I knew you knew." "Yes," she said with cool humour.

"How intimate that seems to make us all at once!" Russell left no doubt that he was delighted with these gaieties of hers.
"By George!" he exclaimed again.

"I thought you were this sort of girl the first moment I saw you!" "What sort of girl?
Didn't Mildred tell you what sort of girl I am when she asked you to dance with me ?" "She didn't ask me to dance with you--I'd been looking at you.

You were talking to some old ladies, and I asked Mildred who you were." "Oh, so Mildred DIDN'T----" Alice checked herself.