‘They do.’
‘Values are quite changed. Don’t you think so?’
She must make him realize that she was not really a cheap flirtatious creature: re-establish her dignity in his eyes. She had behaved so lightly he might be led to think of her and treat her without respect, and laugh at her behind her back after she had ceased to divert him. It was very worrying.
‘Quite, quite changed,’ he said.
‘Isn’t it queer? I suppose—it doesn’t do much harm? One oughtn’t to think worse of a person for——’
He threw back his head to laugh at his ease, silently, as always, as if his joke were too deep down and individual for audible laughter.
‘Are you laughing at me, Roddy?’
‘I can’t help it. You’re so terribly funny. You’re the funniest person I’ve ever met.’
‘You’re so incredibly serious.’