See ?" "Showing her the beauties of your character!" I exclaimed derisively.
"I said something about the defects, too," said Dicky modestly, "though not so much.

And I was getting on beautifully, though it isn't so easy with an English girl.

They don't seem to think it's proper to analyse your character.

They're so maidenly." "And so unenterprising," I said, but I said it to myself.
"Isabel was actually beginning to _lead up to the subject_," Dicky went on.

"She asked me the other day if it was true that all American men were flirts.