"You're quite right--it isn't." This was Miss Johnson.
"I used to have a high opinion of you." This was Mr. Staines.
"You used to have!--that I should ever have been so belittled!"
Miss Johnson turned disdainfully from Mr. Staines to Margaret.
"What you say is perfectly correct, my dear, only a woman's opinion of a woman is of the slightest value."
"The other day I heard a woman express her opinion of you in terms which, if I repeated them to you, might cause you to change your views."
"Some women!"
"I don't know that I go quite so far as Dollie, and there is something in what Mr. Staines hints, for, of course, there are women whose opinions of each other are merely so many libels."
"Hear! hear!"
"Do be still! Will somebody sit on Mr. Staines?"