"I don't know myself at all.

I got to wondering about that--about who I was--the other day after you walked home with me." He uttered an exclamation, and added, explaining it, "You do give a man a chance to be fatuous, though! As if it were walking home with me that made you wonder about yourself!" "It was," Alice informed him, coolly.

"I was wondering what I wanted to make you think of me, in case I should ever happen to see you again." This audacity appeared to take his breath.

"By George!" he cried.
"You mustn't be astonished," she said.

"What I decided then was that I would probably never dare to be just myself with you--not if I cared to have you want to see me again--and yet here I am, just being myself after all!" "You ARE the cheeriest series of shocks," Russell exclaimed, whereupon Alice added to the series.
"Tell me: Is it a good policy for me to follow with you ?" she asked, and he found the mockery in her voice delightful.