But do you think it very good taste for you to figure publicly on the sawdust with an eccentric girl like Marion ?" "I see nothing conspicuous about a girl's judging a few dogs," said Sylvia, merely from an irritable desire to contradict.
"It's bad taste and bad form," remarked Quarrier coldly; "and Agatha thought it a mistake for you to go there with her." "Agatha's opinions do not concern me." "Perhaps mine may have some weight." "Not the slightest." He said patiently: "This is a public show; do you understand?
Not one of those private bench exhibitions." "I understand.

Really, Howard, you are insufferable at times." "Do you feel that way ?" "Yes, I do.

I am sorry to be rude, but I do feel that way!" Flushed, impatient, she looked him squarely between his narrowing, woman's eyes: "I do not care for you very much, Howard, and you know it.

I am marrying you with a perfectly sordid motive, and you know that, too.

Therefore it is more decent--if there is any decency left in either of us--to interfere with one another as little as possible, unless you desire a definite rupture.