'Precisely my own principle. I hope you will do it all the rest of your life, duchess.'
'Because you hope my likings will be just right. Yes, but how shall
I know? For to begin with, they are as wayward as a west wind.'
'Let us see. What is your motive of choice in buying?'
'Just that I saidwhat I like. I can tell in a minute what suits me.'
'Beauty, harmony, and fitness, being your guiding objects.'
'Well.'
"Well. You cannot be too beautiful, or too harmonious, for my delight.'
Hazel sat silent again, thinking, puzzling. 'I wonder if I understand you?' she said. 'O I have had plenty of comments made on me before,I think I was a sort of shock to some people. Good people, you know,at least the best I saw; nice quiet old ladies, and proper behaved young ones. But then'
'Go on,' said Rollo smiling.
'Well, I used to think they did not know what they were afraid of. Twenty duck shot would not have mattered, if only the gun had been wrapped in green baize. It was just the glitter of lock, stock, and barrel. Even Prim would have been easy if I had worn things in a heap.'