“Well, most people get over it.”
“Get over what?”
“Being handsome.”
“Yet women have the worst of it again. The handsome man lasts longer somehow.”
“Should you call Dick a handsome man?”
“Certainly not. Dick is a good fellow, but no one ever accused him of being handsome. You should have known that I couldn’t possibly be personal.”
“O, I did, from my side.”
“Don’t be malicious. The first case I ever knew was of a classmate of mine, a lovely girl. Do you know, I was present at the beginning of a most dreadful quarrel, after she had suffered everything. Well, he went to the d— bad, and she went to Lenox; and they both came back and patched it up somehow.”
“I can imagine your balancing in your mind four years ago the arguments in favor of the proposition that Dick was handsome enough to count.”