"I consider that a girl who lets a man marry her under false pretenses is a cheat." "A strong word, my dear!" "But not too strong." "Wait a minute.

Suppose she doesn't love him.

What then ?" "Then she oughtn't to have married him." "Yes, but it may have suited her to marry him." "Then she should fulfill the bargain honestly and play the game according to the rules.

However modern and civilized people are, they do that." Joan shrugged her round white shoulders and flicked her cigarette ash expertly into the china tray on the spindle-legged table at her elbow.
She was quite unmoved.

Alice had always taken it upon herself to lecture her about individualism--the enthusiastic little thing.