"Responsibility, my dear Miss Summerson?" he repeated, catching at the word with the pleasantest smile. "I am the last man in the world for such a thing. I never was responsible in my life--I can't be."
"I am afraid everybody is obliged to be," said I timidly enough, he being so much older and more clever than I.

"Responsibility, my dear Miss Summerson?" he repeated, with the pleasantest smile. "I am the last man in the world for such a thing. I never was responsible in my life - I can't be."
"I am afraid everybody is obliged to be," said I timidly enough, he being so much older and more clever than I.
