She considered this objection with her eyes on his face. “Well then we do care. Only—!”
“Only it’s a big subject.”
“Oh yes—no doubt; it’s a big subject.” She appeared to wish to meet him on everything reasonable. “Even Mr. Longdon admits that.”
Vanderbank wondered. “You mean you talk over with him—!”
“The subject of girls? Why we scarcely discuss anything else.”
“Oh no wonder then you’re not bored. But you mean,” he asked, “that he recognises the inevitable change—?”
“He can’t shut his eyes to the facts. He sees we’re quite a different thing.”
“I dare say”—her friend was fully appreciative. “Yet the old thing—what do YOU know of it?”
“I personally? Well, I’ve seen some change even in MY short life. And aren’t the old books full of us? Then Mr. Longdon himself has told me.”
Vanderbank smoked and smoked. “You’ve gone into it with him?”