"The latter largely, the former possibly," she replied with an amused look.
"Miss Emerson is a very pretty girl," he said.
"Beauty with money is a valuable asset for marriage with some needy scion of the aristocracy," she observed.
"It is not confined to the needy in her case," he replied.
"I beg your pardon, Montague," she apologized.
"Oh, I'm not affected!" he laughed. "Since you wouldn't have me, I've retired."
"You never gave me the chance to have you—you never asked me!" she laughed back.
"No—you were too occupied with Lorraine to give me the opportunity to ask you."
"Lorraine?" she inflected contemptuously.