Mark, you are rather tantalizing. It
is so evident that you are only favouring me with elegant extracts."
"Oh well, I don't want to give the girl away," he said. "And look
here, Carrissima, I don't want you to drop upon her too heavily."
"Is that a custom of mine?" she exclaimed. "As if I want to drop upon
her at all! Frankly, I like Bridget. You see, we are in agreement so
far. Or rather, I should like her if she would let the foolish colonel
go. Oh dear, I really ought not to talk in this way!"
"Upon my word," said Mark, "I believe she scarcely realizes what she is
doing."
"Then you admit she is doing it!"
"A kind of youthful irresponsibility," he returned. "That accounts for
everything."
"You seem to forget she is older than I am," said Carrissima.
He laughed as he looked down at her small figure, and if he had not by
any means succeeded in relieving her dismal anticipations concerning
Colonel Faversham, he had to a certain degree caused her to feel easier
about his own future. Flattering herself that she had now a firm grip
of the situation, Carrissima began to marvel that a man of her father's
long experience could remain blind to the facts of the case.
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