"Not so hard as you think."
She smiled a mysterious, quiet smile, as if she contemplated some happy secret. He thought he knew it, Anne's secret.
"Do you think it's funny of me to be living here with Colin?"
He laughed.
"I suppose it's all right. You always had pluck enough for anything."
"It doesn't take pluck to stick to Colin."
"Moral pluck."
"No. Not even moral."
"You were always fond of him, weren't you?"
That was about as far as he dare go.