The girl flushed hotly.

Her father and Madame de Soissons were talking together in a deep bay window at the end of the room.
"So you heard me last night, Monsieur Rupert.

Well, there is nothing to be ashamed of.

You were my hero when I was a child; I don't mind saying so now.

If you had made me your heroine it would have been different, but you never did, one bit.