Nothing's more probable than that I've said something nasty; but which of my particular horrors ?" "Well then, your conveying that she makes her daughter out younger--!" "To make herself out the same ?" Vanderbank took him straight up.

"It was nasty my doing that?
I see, I see.

Yes, yes: I rather gave her away, and you're struck by it--as is most delightful you SHOULD be--because you're in every way of a better tradition and, knowing Mrs.Brookenham's my friend, can't conceive of one's playing on a friend a trick so vulgar and odious.

It strikes you also probably as the kind of thing we must be constantly doing; it strikes you that right and left, probably, we keep giving each other away.

Well, I dare say we do.