“Are you? You know a great deal about him, I dare say.”
“I am not much reassured by those who do know about him.”
“And who may they be? The only person you know who has seen much of him is Marian, and she doesnt speak ill of people behind their backs.”
“Marian takes rather a rose-colored view of everybody, Marmaduke included. You should talk to Nelly about him.”
“I knew it. I knew, the minute you began to talk, who had set you on.”
“I am afraid Nelly’s opinion is worth more than Marians.”
“Her opinion! Everybody knows what her opinion is. She is bursting with jealousy of me.”
“Jealousy!”
“What else? Marmaduke has never taken the least notice of her, and she is madly in love with him.”
“This is quite a new light upon the affair. Constance, are you sure you are not romancing?”