"She is simply nobody."
"Seems to say a good deal," responded Philip. "I do not know just what it says."
"You know as well as I do! And she is unformed; unused to all the ways of the world; a mere novice in society."
"Part of that is soon mended," said Philip easily. "I heard your uncle, or Burrage's uncle, old Colonel Chauncey, last night declaring that there is not a girl in the city that has such manners as one of the Miss Lothrops; manners of 'mingled grace and dignity,' he said."
"That was the other one."
"That was the other one."
"She has been in New York before?"
"Yes."
"That was the one that Tom Caruthers was bewitched with?"
"Have you heard that story?" said Mr. Dillwyn dryly.