"One of the worst. She told me you had said to her something that an American never would have said. But she didn＇t repeat it."
Ralph treated himself to a luxury of laughter. "She＇s an extraordinary combination. Did she think I was making love to her?"
"No; I believe even Americans do that. But she apparently thought you mistook the intention of something she had said, and put an unkind construction on it."
"I thought she was proposing marriage to me and I accepted her. Was that unkind?"