Basil says that as well as Fred.

Do you want a man to lie and say I am ugly ?" "You are fencing the real question.

He had no business to use the word 'my.' You are engaged to Basil Stanhope, not to Fred Mostyn." "I am Basil's lovely fiancee; I am Fred's lovely friend." "Oh! I hope Fred understands the difference." "Of course he does.

Some people are always thinking evil." "I was thinking of Mr.Stanhope's rights." "Thank you, Ethel; but I can take care of Mr.Stanhope's rights without your assistance.

If you had said you were thinking of Ethel Rawdon's rights you would have been nearer the truth." "Dora, I will not listen----" "Oh, you shall listen to me! I know that you expected Fred to fall in love with you, but if he did not like to do so, am I to blame ?" Ethel was resuming her coat at this point in the conversation, and Dora understood the proud silence with which the act was being accomplished.
Then a score of good reasons for preventing such a definite quarrel flashed through her selfish little mind, and she threw her arms around Ethel and begged a thousand pardons for her rudeness.