“Is she more fascinating in manner?”
“She couldn’t be!”
“She is younger?” tentatively.
Harleston did not reply.
“But very little—two or three years, maybe?” she added.
Again Harleston did not reply.
“Is her conversation more entertaining?” she resumed.
“Impossible!”
“Or more edifying?”
“Excuse me again!” he exclaimed. “Edifying is in the same class as intellectual.”