Pinkey moved uneasily.
"Could you give me the precise significance?" persisted Wallie.
"I could, but I wouldn't like to," Pinkey replied, drily
"Oh, don't spare my feelings," said Wallie, loftily, "there's nothing she could say would hurt them."
"If that's the way you feel—she meant you were 'harmless'."
"I trust so," Wallie responded with dignity.
"I'd ruther be called a—er—a Mormon," Pinkey observed.
Shocked at the language, Wallie demanded:
"It is, then, an epithet of opprobrium?"
"I can't say as to that," replied Pinkey, judicially, "but she meant you were a 'perfect lady'."