Of all the women I know, you are the only one not quite a fool." "I should be a great fool if--" "If you married me, you were going to say; but I don't think so.

I am the only man, not quite an ass, of your acquaintance.

I know my value, and yours.

And I loved you long ago, when I had no right to." Agatha frowned.

"No," she said.