"What everybody means, I suppose."
"What is that?"
"Why, wanting things and getting them, of course—wanting a ten cent thing a dollar's worth, and having it."
"What a definition!" exclaimed Mrs. Darche. "But I really do believe you enjoy your life."
"Though it would bore you to extinction."
"Possibly. The alternate wild attacks of teaching and flirting to which you are subject would probably not agree with me."
"Perhaps you could do either, but not both at the same time."
"I suppose I could teach if I knew anything," said Mrs. Darche thoughtfully. "But I do not," she added with conviction.
"And I have no doubt you could flirt if you loved anybody. It is a pity you do not."
"Oh, my flirting days are over," answered Marion laughing. "You seem to forget that I am married."