"You certainly are doing your best to make me hate him! I really don＇t think I can ask him. I should be afraid of being rude to him."
"It＇s just as you please," Henrietta returned. "I had no idea you were in love with her yourself."
"Do you really believe that?" the young man asked with lifted eyebrows.
"That＇s the most natural speech I＇ve ever heard you make! Of course I believe it," Miss Stackpole ingeniously said.