Madame de Pastourelles assented—cautiously.
'That's all a question of manners,' said Fenwick, with sudden roughness.
She gave a vague 'Perhaps'—and he straightened himself aggressively.
'I don't think manners very important, do you?'
'Very!' She said it, with a gay firmness.
'Well, then, some of us will never get any,' his tone was surly—'we weren't taught young enough.'
'Our mothers teach us generally—all that's wanted!'
He shook his head.
'It's not as simple as that. Besides—one may lose one's mother.'
'Ah, yes!' she said, with quick feeling.