14/32 But you always were so horribly unpractical. Don't you know, my dear boy, that there are heaps of ladies, real ladies, waiting the first decent man who offers them five or six hundred a year? I am going to marry because, for the first time in my life, I have met the woman whom I can respect and love.' 'That's very nice and proper. But why shouldn't you respect and love a girl who belongs to good society ?' 'Miss Madden is a lady,' he replied indignantly. |