“‘Why, it’s perfectly lovely!’ says Lizzie, as she fetched her pretty hands together in her lap.
“‘Yes, you want to cultivate Dan,’ I says. ‘He’s a man to be reckoned with.’
“‘Oh, indeed!’ says her Ladyship.
“‘Yes, indeed!’ I says, ‘an’ the girls are all after him.’
“I just guessed that. I knew it was unscrupulous, but livin’ here in this atmosphere does affect the morals even of a lawyer. Lizzie grew red in the face.
“‘He could marry one o’ the Four Hundred if he wanted to,’ I says. ‘The other evening he was seen in the big red tourin’-car o’ the Van Alstynes. What do you think o’ that?’
“Now that was true, but the chauffeur had been a college friend of Dan’s, an’ I didn’t mention that.
“Lizzie had a dreamy smile on her face.
“‘Why, it’s wonderful!’ says she. ‘I didn’t know he’d improved so.’
“‘I hear that his mother is doing her own work,’ says the Lady Henshaw, with a forced smile.