"But ___," she stammered. "The cases are not comparable! Perhaps it was wrong of me--indeed, I know it was wrong!---but it was not---it was not wicked!"
"Oh stop acting the dunce!", he said exasperated. "Of all the fustian nonsense I ever heard in my life--! What the devil's come over you, ___? You were never used to raise such a breeze for nothing at all."