But you mean," he asked, "that he recognises the inevitable change-- ?" "He can't shut his eyes to the facts.

He sees we're quite a different thing." "I dare say"-- her friend was fully appreciative.

"Yet the old thing--what do YOU know of it ?" "I personally?
Well, I've seen some change even in MY short life.

And aren't the old books full of us?
Then Mr.Longdon himself has told me." Vanderbank smoked and smoked.

"You've gone into it with him ?" "As far as a man and a woman can together." As he took her in at this with a turn of his eye he might have had in his ears the echo of all the times it had been dropped in Buckingham Crescent that Nanda was "wonderful." She WAS indeed.