"Mamma just thinks of you as I do."
"Not quite, I hope?"
"She does not want to marry you--don't be vain; but she said to me the other day, 'My dear, Mr. Moore has pleasing manners; he is one of the few gentlemen I have seen who combine politeness with an air of sincerity.'"
"'Mamma' is rather a misanthropist, is she not? Not the best opinion of the sterner sex?"
"She forbears to judge them as a whole, but she has her exceptions whom she admires--Louis and Mr. Hall, and, of late, yourself. She did not like you once; I knew that, because she would never speak of you. But, Robert----"
"Well, what now? What is the new thought?"

And Mamma thinks of you as I do."
"Not quite, I hope?"
"She does not want to marry you - don't be vain; but she said to me the other day, 'My dear, Mr. Moore has pleasing manners; he is one of the few gentlemen I have seen who combine politeness with sincerity.'"
"'Mamma' is rather a misanthropist, is she not? Not the best opinion of the sterner sex?"
"There are exceptions whom she admires - Louis and Mr. Hall, and, lately, yourself. But, Robert