I've learned that." "You ?" "Of course." "How ?" "Experience," said Rita, carelessly.

"Every girl is bound to have it.
She doesn't have to hunt for it, either." "Were you ever in--love ?" asked Valerie, curiously.
"Now, dear, if I ever had been happily in love is it likely you wouldn't know it ?" "I suppose so," said Valerie....

She added, musingly: "I wonder what will become of me if I ever fall in love." "If you'll take my advice you'll run." "Run?
Where?
For goodness' sake!" "Anywhere until you became convalescent." "That would be a ridiculous idea," remarked Valerie so seriously that Rita began to laugh: "You sweet thing," she said, "it's a million chances that you'd be contented only with the sort of man who wouldn't marry you." "Because I'm poor, you mean?
Or because I am working for my living ?" "Both--and then some." "What else ?" "Why, the only sort of men who'd attract you have come out of their own world of their own accord to play about for a while in our world.

They can go back; that is the law.

But they can't take us with them." "They'd be ashamed, you mean ?" "Perhaps not.