I feel in a winning vein.

Very soon," she added, as they stepped out on to the pavement and she gathered up her skirts, "very soon I am quite sure that I shall be asking you for my cheques back again." He laughed, as though she had been a child speaking of playthings.
"I am not sure that I shall wish you luck," he said.

"I think that I like to feel that you are a little--just a very little in my debt.

Do you think that I should be a severe creditor ?" Something in his voice disturbed her vaguely, but she brushed the thought away.

Of course he admired her, but then every woman must have admirers.