BARON HIRSCH: "Why not?"
MARGOT: "Because I have too many friends."
BARON HIRSCH: "And enemies?"
MARGOT (thoughtfully): "Perhaps. …I don't know about that. I never notice whether people dislike me or not. After all, you took a fancy to me the first time we met; why should not other people do the same? Do you think I should not improve on acquaintance?"
BARON HIRSCH: "How can you doubt that, when I have just asked you to marry my son?"
MARGOT: "What other English girl is there that you would like for a daughter-in-law?"
BARON HIRSCH: "Lady Katie Lambton,[Footnote: The present Duchess of Leeds.] Durham's sister."
MARGOT: "I don't know her at all. Is she like me?"
BARON HIRSCH: "Not in the least; but you and she are the only girls I have met that I could wish my son to marry."
I longed to know what my rival was like, but all he could tell me was that she was lovely and clever and mignonne, to which I said: