77/82 "Yes," she said, "they are not so silly as most of the things we have seen. They have no chic, and yet they are beautiful." "You describe them perfectly," said Rowland. "They are beautiful, and yet they have no chic. That 's it!" "If he will promise to put none into my bust, I have a mind to let him make it. A request made in those terms deserves to be granted." "In what terms ?" "Did n't you hear him? |