"Kinship has little to do with my liking him."
"He's rather easy-going, isn't he?"
She flushed up again, and turned her clear eyes on his little brown ones.
"Don't you like him?" she asked.
"Isn't he easy-going?"
"He has not yet found himself. He is an intelligent, warm-hearted, high-minded man, capable of taking an honorable position in the world.... And I do not doubt that he will one day take and keep it."
"He was in iron, was he not—Edgerton, Tennant & Co.?"
"Yes."
Mr. Rivett thought for a while. "By the way," he said, "I neglected to answer your question. I'll answer it now. I like Mr. Edgerton."
"Thank you," said Diana, not perfectly aware of what she said.