"Perhaps she'd like to see the Stock Exchange when I'm at my best." "Is she such a beauty?
Do you know her, too, Mr.Querida ?" asked Rose Aulne.
Querida laughed: "I do.

Miss West is a most engaging, most amiable and cultivated girl, and truly very beautiful." "Oh! They _are_ sometimes educated ?" asked Stephanie, surprised.
"Sometimes they are even equipped to enter almost any drawing-room in New York.

It doesn't always require the very highest equipment to do that," he added, laughing.
"That sounds like romantic fiction," observed Alice Annan.

"You are a poet, Mr.Querida." "Oh, it's not often a girl like Valerie West crosses our path.

I admit that.