"Well, he told me himself that you would have said 'yes' one evening if somebody hadn't come in."
She was silent.
"It's true then?" he said, with a glance at her.
"Oh, I don't know. I might have done, but I should have been very sorry for it afterwards."
"You'd have had a topping good time."
"I suppose that is what tempted me, just a little. But it would be horrid to marry for that."
"What made you change? He was most awfully in love with you, to do him justice, though he seems to have got over it pretty quickly."
"Yes, he did seem to be. But it shows how little it was worth. It wasn't the sort of way John was in love with Nancy."
"It was when Nancy fixed up her little affair that you sent Bobby about his business."
"Yes. Don't let's talk about it any more. I'm sick of Bobby Trench."