"You know what I mean, Janet, dear."
"I suppose I do, but how can I help it? I do all I can to show him it's no use."
"You used to like him very much."
"Oh, so I do now. But that's quite different."
The world goes very crooked. Mrs. Delane sighed again.
"It would have pleased your father very much."
"I'm so sorry. But I couldn't care for a man of that sort."
"What's the matter with the man, my dear?"
"That's just it, mamma. Nothing—nothing bad—and nothing good. Gerard is like heaps of men I know."