"It would be a compliment in some cases."
"How?"
"It would put a fictitious value on some men."
"You couldn't humiliate in that way," he ventured, slowly.
"No. I don't think I could. If a man showed a preference for any other woman she would be quite welcome to him."
"No man could!" said Brent, insinuatingly.
She looked at him coldly a moment.
"Let me see—where were you? Just married, weren't you? Go on."
"Then came the baby!" He said that with a significant meaning and paused to see the effect on Ethel. If it had any, Ethel effectually concealed it. Her only comment was:
"Ah!"