This was admitted.
“You are not engaged to any one?”
“Oh, no!”
“And have never tried that position?”
“No, oh, no!”
“That shocks you,” said Anne, with a laugh. “My dear, it often happens to me.”
“Not seriously?”
“Quite seriously.” She leant back and watched Millie’s face with amusement. “Are you disgusted?”
“Why—why do you do it? I can’t understand.”
“It comes somehow, often really without my intending. It’s the way of my kind, I suppose. For one thing, how is one to know a man at all until one is engaged? And so often I can’t tell beforehand whether I like them well enough or not. As you see, it has generally ended by my discovering that it would be intolerable. I don’t pretend that there have not been other reasons,” she added frankly. “Riches sometimes fly away on nearer approach.”