You just shut up yourself for weeks with a fascinating girl, and see if you wouldn't find yourself in some horrible entanglement, proof against such as you think you are." "As I am obliged to be.

I should take care not to lay myself open to the temptation.

Neither need you have done it." "I don't see how I was to help myself.

Often and often I wished to have visitors in the house, but the old woman met me with reproaches that I was forgetting the recent death of my brother.

She won't have any one now if she knows it, and I had to send for you quietly.