I don't know why I said it; I'm not the sort of girl who says such stupid things--though I was apparently, for that one moment.

And what I said about Gladys was childish; I am not jealous of her, Captain Selwyn.

Don't think me silly or perverse or sentimental, will you ?" "No, I won't." She smiled at him with a trifle less courage--a trifle more self-consciousness: "And--and as for what I called you--" "You mean when you called me by my first name, and I teased you ?" "Y-es.

I was silly to do it; sillier to be ashamed of doing it.

There's a great deal of the callow schoolgirl in me yet, you see.