“I don’t know him.”
“That is a lie!” said Miss Van Tuyn to herself.
To Lady Sellingworth she said:
“Then if you don’t know Mr. Arabian you are only repeating hearsay.”
“No!”
“But you must be!”
“I am not.”
“Adela, you are incomprehensible, or else I must be densely stupid. One or the other!”
“One may know things about a man’s character and life without being personally acquainted with him.”
“Then it’s hearsay. I am not going to drop Mr. Arabian because of hearsay, more especially when I don’t even know what the hearsay is.”