"I cordially agreed with him."
"But has she had many offers?"
"She would not talk of them if she had; but you may take it as broadly true, that every man of her acquaintance is either living in hope, or has practically—I say practically—been rejected."
"Oh, Mona, that is a large order! You see, the fact is, I am jealous of Miss Colquhoun."
"My dear Pussy! Doris and I were chums before you were born."
"Raison de plus! Look here, dear! you say things to me that you would not say to her?"
"Oh yes!"
"And you don't say things to her that you would not say to me?"
"Oh yes!"
Lucy laughed, discomfited. "I choose not to believe it," she said.