He said drily: “It isn’t a case of being shocked. It’s more like being bored.”
“Oh. My friends bore you?”
“Their morals do.... Is Ilse that sort, too?”
“That sort?”
“You know what I mean.”
“I suppose she is.”
“Not inclined to bother herself with the formalities of marriage?”
“I suppose not.”
“It’s a mischievous, ridiculous, immoral business!” he said hotly. “Why, to look at you––at Ilse––at Miss Lanois–––”