"For the last two or three weeks," answered Monte.
"You don't mind my talking to you about her?"
"Not at all."
"As you're an old friend of hers, I feel as if I had the right."
"Go ahead."
"It seems to me as if she had suddenly grown from a girl to a woman. I saw the woman in her all the time. It—it was to her I spoke before. Maybe, as you said, the woman was n't quite ready."
"I'm sure of it."
"You speak with conviction."
"As I told you, I've come to know her better these last few weeks than ever before. I 've had a chance to study her. She's had a chance, too, to study—other men. There's been one in particular—"
Peter straightened a bit.