Suppose I use it for things you don't like ?" "You won't," he said gaily.
She tried to push the subject further, but he would not have it.
"I am all for free discussion," he said in the same tone; "but sometimes debate must be stifled.

I am going to stifle it!" And stooping, he kissed her, lightly, tremulously.

His manner showed her once more what she was to him--how sacred, how beloved.

First it touched and shook her; then she sprang up with a sudden disagreeable sense of moral disadvantage--inferiority--coming she knew not whence, and undoing for the moment all that buoyant consciousness of playing the magnanimous, disinterested part which had possessed her throughout the talk in the drawing-room.
The others reappeared, headed by their lamp: Wharton first, scanning the two who had lingered behind, with his curious eyes, so blue and brilliant under the white forehead and the curls.
"We have been making the wildest shots at your ancestors, Miss Boyce," he said.

"Frank professed to know everything about the pictures, and turned out to know nothing.