"That's why I'm such a happy woman. Teach Eva to dress badly!"
Again Kate's brows rose in remonstrance or question.
"Oh, no, I don't mean it, of course. What would be the good, when most men don't know the difference?"
"You're certainly a good corrective to idealism."
"I ought to be. Well, well, Anna can look after herself."
"It isn't as if one positively knew anything against him."
"One might mind one's own business, even if one did," Christine observed.
"Oh, I don't quite agree with you there. If one saw an innocent girl——"
"Eva? Oh, you mothers!"
"I suppose I was thinking of her. Christine, did Sibylla ever——?"