"Mademoiselle la Blonde," and her lips curled. "She came in while you were at St. Malo. She inferred you had not parted then!"
"That was because she was jealous, and is very temperamental. I had thought that quality was confined to her class."
I too can hit hard when I am insulted!
Alathea flashed at me. She was beginning to realize that she was at a disadvantage.
"You are not unutterably shocked that I should have had a—friend, are you?"
Her face grew contemptuous.
"No, my father had one. Men are all beasts."
"They may be in the abstract, but are not when they can find a woman worth love and respect."
She shrugged her shoulders.