"Everybody has heard it, I suppose. When are they to be married?"
"Not till next August. Mrs. Major says she can't spare Bee sooner. I'm to be one of the bridesmaids."
"And of course your brother will be best man."
Magda had not expected Patricia to speak of Rob.
"I dare say he will, if he isn't too busy."
"He always says he is too busy for anything." A pause, and then—"I sometimes wonder—if we had not broken off before all this—"
"You wonder what?" Magda's curiosity was aroused.
"How he would have managed. He would not have wanted me any longer."
"Patricia!" indignantly. "Rob would never never have changed—and for such a reason!"
"He did change. It was because I knew he had changed that I—oh, it doesn't matter! Nothing matters now. I dare say he would have put up with me still, as a duty. I should hate to be put up with, as a duty! And he only cared for me because of my face. I knew that all along, though he didn't."