'And then--Beryl's too dreadfully humble!' 'Humble! About what?
No girl ought to be humble--ever!' Pamela's eyes recovered their natural brilliance under his peremptory look.

And he, who had begun the walk with no particular consciousness at all about his companion, except that she was a nice, good-looking child, whom he had known from a baby, with equal suddenness became aware of her in a new way.
'Why shouldn't we be humble, please ?' she said, with a laugh.
'Because it's monstrous that you should.

Leave that to us!' 'There wouldn't be much of it about, if we did!' The red danced in her cheek.
'Much humility?
Oh, you're quite mistaken.

Men are much more humble than you think.

But we're human, of course.