MR. RICHARDS: "I am grateful for your good opinion."

MISS GALBRAITH: "But do you think it was exactly--it was quite--
nice, not to tell me that your brother's engagement was to be kept,
when you know, Allen, I can't bear to blunder in such things?"
Tenderly, "DO you? You CAN'T say it was?"

MR. RICHARDS: "I never said it was."

MISS GALBRAITH, plaintively: "No, Allen. That's what I always
admired in your character. You always owned up. Don't you think
it's easier for men to own up than it is for women?"

MR. RICHARDS: "I don't know. I never knew any woman to do it."

MISS GALBRAITH: "Oh, yes, Allen! You know I OFTEN own up."

MR. RICHARDS: "No, I don't."

MISS GALBRAITH: "Oh, how can you bear to say so? When I'm rash, or
anything of that kind, you know I acknowledge it."

MR. RICHARDS: "Do you acknowledge it now?"

MISS GALBRAITH: "Why, how can I, when I haven't BEEN rash? WHAT
have I been rash" -

MR. RICHARDS: "About the cigar-case, for example."