"Herbert Pryce seems to have behaved quite decently.

Shall I tell you something ?" The laughing girl stooped over Connie, and said in her ear--"Now that Herbert knows it would be no good proposing to you, he thinks it might be a useful thing to have you for a relation." "Don't be horrid!" said Constance.

"If I were Alice--" "You'd punch my head ?" Nora laughed.

"All very well.

But Alice doesn't much care why Herbert Pryce marries her, so long as he does marry her." Constance did not reply.