"Don't do that, you monkey," said her father quickly.
"Why not?"
"I don't like it."
"I'm frightfully unfashionable, because I smoke so little," she returned.
"It's a vicious habit—for women," declared Mr. Fabian.
"But I'm a suffragist; besides, men tolerate it in women now—they like them to do it."
"Not the women they love," said Mr. Fabian quickly.
"Oh!" responded Kathleen.
"When I saw you smoking a cigarette with Edgar a little while ago," he went on, "I spoke to you about it. Don't you remember? I told you how unbecoming I thought it. I hoped you would heed me."
Kathleen met his serious gaze.