"And do you fancy he will have the slightest objection?"
"You will have to ask him."
"I'm asking for your opinion, not for his."
"Montague is very adaptable," Stephanie remarked.
"Adaptable!" cried Gladys. "He may be now—he hasn't been in the recent past. Your influence has evidently been softening—I shouldn't have thought of asking him if it hadn't been for you."
"Thank Heaven, I've a softening influence on some one," said Stephanie.
"Without a doubt—yes."
They were starting down a long, steep and winding grade. She cut off the spark, threw into second and opening the throttle let the gas shoot into the cylinders to cool the engine.
"My recommendation that you get some one interested in you is rather unnecessary under the circumstances, don't you think?" she remarked.