I am not going to marry him." After a silence Rita said, slowly: "Did he ask you to ?" Valerie looked down, passed her needle through the hem once, twice.
"Yes," she said, softly, "he asked me." "And--you refused ?" "Yes." Rita said: "I like Kelly Neville ...

and I love you better, dear.

But it's not best for you to marry him....

Life isn't a very sentimental affair--not nearly as silly a matter as poets and painters and dramas and novels pretend it is.

Love really plays a very minor part in life, Don't you know it ?" "Yes.