\"Charmed!\" My hand was horribly self-conscious in the expectation that he might offer to kiss it. I wondered if it was quite clean. Which way would I look! I could see too that Mme. Storey was wickedly hoping that he might. Fortunately he did not.
\"Miss Brickley has been dying to meet you,\" she said slyly.
\"Ah! you do me too much honour!\" he said.
I was rather fussed, and therefore I was bound not to show It. \"Well, you're such a famous man,\" I said.
\"Charmed!\" My hand was horribly self-conscious in the expectation that he might offer to kiss it. I wondered if it was quite clean. Which way would I look! I could see too that Mme. Storey was wickedly hoping that he might. Fortunately he did not.
\"Miss Brickley has been dying to meet you,\" she said slyly.
\"Ah! you do me too much honour!\" he said.
I was rather fussed, and therefore I was bound not to show It. \"Well, you're such a famous man,\" I said.
