"To begin with, then: You are an extremely attractive young woman."
"Yes, I know. But is this part of the lecture? or have I at last succeeded in rousing you?"
But Lanyard wouldn't be diverted. "And apparently," he persisted, "too well supplied with money to know a real care."
"Simple sloughs of the wretched stuff," Folly frankly admitted.
"That sable coat you wore tonight can't have cost less than twenty thousand dollars."
"How little men know! It cost thirty."
"The jewels you're wearing would ransom a profiteer's wife—"
"Why not? I'm a profiteer's widow."
"Those emeralds alone must be worth a hundred thousand."
"You do know emeralds, don't you, Mr. Lanyard?"