She loaned him a book; he brought her confectionery; they played some piano duets together.

With amusing politeness, the governor of the city at last sent her some confectionery,agreeing with John Keats, who held that young women were beings fitter to be presented with sugar-plums than with one's time.

The people had been accustomed to throw confectionery and flowers on this day, but this time the day was to be made memorable by a shower of stones and bullets; this time they were not to appear in the harlequin jacket, but in their true form, earnest, grand, commanding, self-conscious, and self-asserting.