I say, are you going to come here often; because, if you are, I shall go away back to the States or somewhere, or stay upstairs in my own room.

You and me won't get on very well together, I am afraid." "I don't think you will see me very often," he replied.

"That is improbable; yet I dare say I shall come here as often as I usually do." "What do you mean by that ?" She looked sharply and suspiciously at him.

He repeated his words, and she perceived that there was meaning in them, and she felt uneasy.
"I don't understand at all," she said; "Clara tells me that this house is mine.

Now--don't you know--I don't intend to invite any but my own friends to visit me in my own house ?" "That seems reasonable.