"Why I should not have the same freedom as other girls in entertaining my gentleman friends I never could quite see." "I believe if we told her we had made up our minds it would be all right," he pleaded.
"I'm not so sure Lorne.

Mother's so deep.

You can't always tell just by what she DOES.

She thinks Stephen Stuart likes me--it's too perfectly idiotic; we are the merest friends--and when it's any question of you and Stephen--well, she doesn't say anything, but she lets me see! She thinks such a lot of the Stuarts because Stephen's father was Ontario Premier once, and got knighted." "I might try for that myself if you think it would please her," said the lover.
"Please her! And I should be Lady Murchison!" she let fall upon his ravished ears.

"Why, Lorne, she'd just worship us both! But you'll never do it." "Why not ?" Dora looked at him with pretty speculation.