"I hope you won't analyze mine," she said, looking at him rather
distrustfully. "I should not like to be dissected before I was
dead."

"I wish all were as able to endure analysis as yourself, Miss
Marsden. In any case, you have no reason to fear a severe critic
in me."

"Why not?"

"Because you have been so lenient towards me. I have received more
kindness from you, a stranger, than from my own kindred."

"You are very grateful."

"Shakespeare declares ingratitude a 'marble-hearted fiend.'"

"You evidently are not 'marble-hearted.'"

"Though possibly a fiend. Thank you."

"I wish there were no worse to fear."

"You need not have occasion to fear any."

"Well, I can't say that I do very much. Perhaps it would be better
for me if I did."

"Why so?"