30/76 I only asked if you HAD spoken to him." "I will not contradict you. I will trust to your own candor. Dear Grace, tell me, have I been so unfortunate as to offend you since then ?" "No." "Have I lost your respect ?" "Oh, no." "Have I forfeited your good opinion ?" "Dear me, no." (A little pettishly.) "Then how is it that I love you better, if possible, than yesterday, and you seem not to like me so well as yesterday ?" "One is not always in the same humor." "Then you don't like me to-day ?" "Oh yes, but I do. And I shall always like you: if you don't tease me, and urge me too much. It is hardly fair to hurry me so; I am only a girl, and girls make such mistakes sometimes." "That is true; they marry on too short an acquaintance. |