"A combination of laziness and vulgarity," Vanbrugh answered promptly.
"Oh!"
"Yes," said Vanbrugh. "The vulgarity that wishes to please everybody, and the laziness that cannot say no."
"You are not a lawyer for nothing. But you are not lazy and you are not vulgar. If you were I should not like you."
"Do you like me?" asked Vanbrugh quickly.
"Very much," she answered with a little laugh.
"You just made me define good nature, Miss Maylands. How do you define liking?"
"Oh, it is very vague," said Dolly in an airy tone. "It is a sort of uncly, auntly thing."
"Oh. I see."
"Do you?"