"Sorry! I heard it was that beast Orgles. But most of the 'boys' who try and speak to you in the street are only too glad to stand a girl a feed."
"But why should they?"
"Don't you know?"
"It would put me under an obligation to the man," remarked Mavis.
"Of course; that's what the gentlemen want."
"But it might lead silly girls into all sorts of trouble."
"I think most of us know how to behave like ladies and drop the gentleman when he wants to go too far."
"Good heavens!" cried Mavis, who was taken aback by the vulgarity of Miss Meakin's point of view.
Perhaps the latter resented the moral superiority contained in her friend's exclamation, for she said with aggrieved voice:
"There's Miss Searle and Miss Bone, who're taken everywhere by a REEL swell; they even went to Paris with him at Easter; and no matter what he wants, I'm sure no one can say they're not ladies."