“You’ll be kept busy avoiding it,” sighed Nellie. “I’ve been.”
“Oh, I simply ignore it,” she returned, with a quick gesture. “Jane won’t approve, of course; but the unusual, the daring, the unconventional are the only things that interest me at all.”
“They interest others when you do them, Nina,” Jane replied smiling calmly.
“Of course, they do. And you ought to be grateful.”
“We are. I’m sure we’d be very dull without you. Personally I’m a bromide.”
“Heaven forbid! The things that are easiest are not worth trying for. Whether your game is fish, fowl or beast (and that includes man), try the most difficult. The thrill of delight when you bag your game is worth all the pains of the effort. Isn’t it, Nellie?”
“I don’t know,” the other replied, between oysters. “I bagged Dick, but then I didn’t have to try very hard. I suppose I would have bagged him just the same. A woman can have any man she wants, you know.”
“The trouble is,” laughed Larry Kane, “that she doesn’t know what she wants.”
“And, if she does, Larry,” said Gallatin slowly, “he’s usually the wrong one.”
Nina laughed.