And his beautiful Valerie is the clear, crystalline, uncontaminated fountain of inspiration." Lily Collis dropped her hands from Stephanie's and her brother's shoulders: "Do ask us to tea to meet her, Louis," she coaxed.
"We've never seen a model--" "Do you want me to exhibit a sensitive girl as a museum freak ?" he asked, impatiently.
"Don't you suppose we know how to behave toward her?
Really, Louis, you--" "Probably you know how to behave.

And I can assure you that she knows perfectly well how to behave toward anybody.

But that isn't the question.

You want to see her out of curiosity.

You wouldn't make a friend of her--or even an acquaintance.