“I don’t see how their eyes bunging out is going to help explain Sir Montrose Veyze I, let alone Sir Montrose Veyze II.”
“Why worry, when I’m here to take the burden from you? I propose,” said Miss Greene relishingly, “to tell those girls the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth.”
“Gloria! They’ll pass it on and I’ll be the laughing-stock—”
“Will they! I dare ’em to pass it on!”
“Why shouldn’t they?” cried the girl. “It’s just the sort of thing that Maud would revel in.”
“Allowing that she could get away with it, you’re right. She couldn’t.”
“Couldn’t make people believe it, you mean?”
“Never. Never in the world!”
“But it’s true!”
“Dear and lovely innocence! Do you think that helps it to get itself believed? Besides, the main part of it isn’t true.”