There WAS somebody in especial--a man you cared for and might have married if he had been a finer sort of chap than he turned out to be ?' She looked at him sharply.
'How do you know?
Has Rosamond Tallant been telling you ?' 'No,' he said, with complete candour.

'There wasn't a word of that sort passed between us--and I wouldn't have heeded it if there had.' 'Joan, then?
No, I'm sure Joan Gildea wouldn't have talked behind my back.' 'You may bet your life on that.

Joan hasn't said anything about whatever love-affairs you may have had.' 'Every girl has had love-affairs.

I'm no exception to the rule.

There's been no real harm in them.