"And that's all?"
"Was there something you expected me to say, Bel? Sorry to disappoint you...."
"Well: you knew the fellow better than I——"
"If it interests you, you may as well know now what I didn't—not before tonight."
"You didn't know Summerlad was married——?"
"If another man dared ask me that question, I think even you would resent it."
"Perhaps. Daresay it's the husband's astigmatic point of view. However, I didn't mean to be offensive."
"Do you seriously ask me to believe that, Bel?"
"Damn it, Linda! you always did have the faculty of putting me in the wrong."
"Isn't it more true that you haven't yet mastered the faculty of always putting yourself in the right?"