actually AFRAID of us, Nettie!"

RANSOM: "See her, and go down in the dust."

MISS REED: "My very words!"

RANSOM: "I have been trying to think what was the very humblest pie
I could eat, by way of penance; and it appears to me that I had
better begin by saying that I have come to ask her for the money I
refused."

MISS REED, enraptured: "Oh! doesn't it seem just like--like--
inspiration, Nettie?"

MISS SPAULDING: "'Sh! Be quiet, do! You'll frighten them away!"

GRINNIDGE: "And then what?"

RANSOM: "What then? I don't know what then. But it appears to me
that, as a gentleman, I've got nothing to do with the result. All
that I've got to do is to submit to my fate, whatever it is."

MISS REED, breathlessly: "What princely courage! What delicate
magnanimity! Oh, he needn't have the LEAST fear! If I could only
tell him that!"

GRINNIDGE, after an interval of meditative smoking: "Yes, I guess
that's the best thing you can do. It will strike her fancy, if she's
an imaginative girl, and she'll think you a fine fellow."