"It IS she--the modern daughter.

'Tishy keeps me dinner and opera; clothes all right; return uncertain, but if before morning have latch-key.' She won't come home till morning!" said Mrs.Brook.
"But think of the comfort of the latch-key!" Vanderbank laughed.

"You might go to the opera," he said to Mr.Longdon.
"Hanged if _I_ don't!" Mr.Cashmore exclaimed.
Mr.Longdon appeared to have caught from Nanda's message an obscure agitation; he met his young friend's suggestion at all events with a visible intensity.

"Will you go with me ?" Vanderbank had just debated, recalling engagements; which gave Mrs.
Brook time to intervene.

"Can't you live without him ?" she asked of her elder friend.
Vanderbank had looked at her an instant.