Annette coloured painfully.
"Must I?"
"Doesn't your own common sense, if you would only use it, tell you the same?"
"I am very fond of Janey Manvers."
"That can't be helped."
"You see," said Annette slowly, "Janey and Roger are the two people I like best anywhere, except you. You don't know," turning her grave eyes to her companion, "how good they are."
"I never like people myself because they are good."
"No, I know. And it's very lucky for me you don't. And then, I dare say, you have always known numbers of good people. But it's different for me. I haven't. I've never been with good people except Aunt Cathie and you."
"If the sacred Miss Nevills could hear you now!"