The mother, however, from her point of view, was talking of real things also.

But how did she come to know about her son's amours?
I thought it useless to enquire.

Randall must have advertised his passion pretty widely.

I replied: "It's extremely improbable.

In the first place Phyllis Gedge isn't dreadful, but a remarkably sweet and modest young woman, and in the second place she won't have anything to do with him." "That's nonsense," she said, bridling.
"Why ?" "Because--" A gesture and a smile completed the sentence.