"He's through with her."
"She's the kind that men don't get through with so readily. It's gone pretty far."
"It's gone the limit probably. Well, I never thought Jimmy was President of the Purity League, Mother."
"Do you really care for him, Dee?"
"Of course I do. I don't mean that he gives me an awful thrill. Nobody does."
"Perhaps the right man would."
"Then I haven't seen him yet. Mother," she turned her cool regard upon Mona, "tell me about it."
"About what?"
"The thrill. The real thrill. You know."
Mona's colour deepened. "You're a queer child, Dee. There are some things a woman has to find out for herself."