“No; you must just not care a great deal for them.”
“Very well, I don’t care a great deal for them, Miss Kingsford.”
“That’s nice,” answered Betty, apparently much relieved. “I respect them both, of course, and think they were really very great men, but I don’t think people have any right to talk about them the way they do. Now that they’re dead, why can’t they be left in peace?”
“I know. It’s—it’s mighty mean, I think.”
“Yes. Then you’re not—not disappointed?” asked Betty. “You don’t mind if I don’t talk to you about your soul, and Emerson, and the other man?”
“Disappointed!” cried Phillip. “I’m mightily pleased.”
“Honestly? And you don’t think I’m frightfully ignorant?”
“I think—I think——”
“Yes?”