She took her stand so on having with Petherton's aid formed Aggie for a femme charmante--" "That it's too late to cry out that Petherton's aid can now be dispensed with?
Do you mean then that he IS such a brute that after all Mitchy has done for him-- ?" Vanderbank, at the rising image, pulled up in easy disgust.
"I think him quite capable of considering with a magnificent insolence of selfishness that what Mitchy has MOST done will have been to make Aggie accessible in a way that--for decency and delicacy of course, things on which Petherton highly prides himself--she could naturally not be as a girl.

Her marriage has simplified it." Vanderbank took it all in.

"'Accessible' is good!" "Then--which was what I intended just now--Aggie has already become so-- ?" Mrs.Brook, however, could as yet in fairness only wonder.

"That's just what I'm dying to see." Her companion smiled at it.

"'Even in our ashes live their wonted fires'! But what do you make, in such a box, of poor Mitchy himself?
His marriage can scarcely to such an extent have simplified HIM." It was something, none the less, that Mrs.Brook had to weigh.