"
Her face seemed to lighten, while her lips twitched as if suppressing a
smile. "You are very forgetful. Did I not tell you that we
Presbyterians are never guilty of such indiscretions?"
"I believe you did, but I doubt your complete surrender to the creed."
"Doubt! Only our second time of meeting, and you already venture to
doubt! This can scarcely be construed into a compliment, I fear."
"Yet to my mind it may prove the very highest type of compliment," he
returned, reassured by her manner. "For a certain degree of
independence in both thought and action is highly commendable. Indeed,
I am going to be bold enough to add that it was these very attributes
that awakened my interest in you."
"Oh, indeed; you cause me to blush already. My frankness, I fear, bids
fair to cost me all my friends, and I may even go beyond your pardon,
if the perverse spirit of my nature so move me."
"The risk of such a catastrophe is mine, and I would gladly dare that
much to get away from conventional commonplace. One advantage of such
meetings as ours is an immediate insight into each other's deeper
nature.
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