Alpha Book

You really glare at me as though I were interesting. And I know you
don't consider me that; do you?"
"How old are you, anyway?" he asked curiously.
"Thank you, I'll be delighted to inform you when I'm twenty."
"You look like a mixture of fifteen and twenty-five to-night," he said
deliberately; "and the answer is more and less than nineteen."
"And you," she said, "talk like a frivolous sage, and your wisdom is as
weighty as the years you carry. And what is the answer to that? Do you
know, Captain Selwyn, that when you talk to me this way you look about
as inexperienced as Gerald?"
"And do _you_ know," he said, "that I feel as inexperienced--when I talk
to you this way?"
She nodded. "It's probably good for us both; I age, you renew the
frivolous days of youth when you were young enough to notice the colour
of a girl's hair and eyes. Besides, I'm very grateful to you. Hereafter
you won't dare sit about and cross your knees and look like the picture
of an inattentive young man by Gibson.


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