"Never mind who I was referring to."
"Whatever I've done," said Miss Potter pointedly, "whatever I've done, I've never made myself cheap with a something in the City."
"No. 'E wouldn't be rich enough for you."
"You say that I take money from gentlemen," cried Miss Potter.
"If they're fools enough to give it to you."
"Ladies! ladies!" pleaded Miss Allen, but all in vain.
"I've never done the things you've done," screamed Miss Potter.
"I've done? I've done? I 'ave my faults same as others, but I can say, I can that—that I've never let a gentleman make love to me unless I've been properly introduced to him," remarked her opponent virtuously.
"For shame! For shame!" cried Miss Potter and Miss Allen together, as if the proprieties that they held most sacred had been ruthlessly and unnecessarily violated.
"No, that I h'ain't," continued irate Miss Impett. "I've watched you when you didn't know I was by and seen the way you've made eyes at gentlemen in evening dress."