"What's all the gloom about, sweetie?"
She released herself not over-gently. "Monty, would you have done what Dupuy did?"
"How do you mean?"
"Broken off your engagement—on that account?"
"Why, yes. Any fellow would." A convincing reason, for him.
"Selden Thorpe wouldn't."
"I'll bet he would. He's a bluff. He makes me sick."
"Well—then—you'd better break ours."
"I don't get you, Pat."
"It's been the same with me as with Elsie Dowden. I've been meaning to tell you."