"You might. In spite of what I tell you. You know very little of my life."
"Oh, I know a great deal," said the young girl with much conviction. "I know all about you. You are successful, and rich and popular and happy, and lots of things."
"Am I?" asked Vanbrugh rather sadly.
"Yes. Everybody knows you are."
"You are quite sure that I am happy?"
"Unless you tell me that you are not."
"How oddly people judge us," exclaimed Vanbrugh. "Because a man behaves like a human being, and is not cross at every turn, and puts his shoulder to the wheel, to talk and be agreeable in society, everybody thinks he is happy."
"Of course." Dolly smiled. "If you were unhappy you would go and sit in corners by yourself and mope and be disagreeable. But you do not, you see. You are always 'on hand' as they call it, always ready to make things pleasant for everybody."
"That is because I am so good-natured."