"It all depends whether it will upset any of my plans," she said.
"I wouldn't have asked you if I had thought that." Joan laughed.

"You've been studying my character, Alice." "I did that at school, my dear." Mrs.Palgrave spoke lightly, but it was plain to see that there was something on her mind.

"Don't go out to supper with Howard Cannon.

Come back with me.

I want to talk to you.
Will you ?" Joan had recently danced in Cannon's huge studio-apartment and been oppressed by its Gulliveresque atmosphere, and she had just come from the Fifth Avenue house of the Hosack family, where a characteristically dignified dinner had got on her nerves.