"It mightn't be any harm; but would it be any good?"
"Well, that might depend a good deal—on you."
"On me? How so? I don't know what you're driving at."
"I'm not driving at anything. I'm only speculating. I'm wondering what I should do if I were in your place—with all your advantages."
"Rot, Drusilla!"
"If I were a man and had a rival," Drusilla persisted, "I should be awfully honorable in the stand I'd take toward him—just like you. But if anything miscarried—"
"You don't expect anything to miscarry?"
She shook her head. "No; I don't expect it. But it might be a fortunate thing if it did."
"You don't mean to infer that this man Ashley mightn't come up to the scratch?"
"Colonel Ashley has come up to a good many scratches in his time. He's not likely to fail in this one."