The Hammond Synges were perhaps not so vulgar, but they had no conscience in their dealings with her.
"She knows what I think of them," said Mrs.Meldrum, "and indeed she knows what I think of most things." "She shares that privilege with most of your friends!" I replied laughing.
"No doubt; but possibly to some of my friends it makes a little difference.

That girl doesn't care a button.

She knows best of all what I think of Flora Saunt." "And what may your opinion be ?" "Why, that she's not worth troubling about--an idiot too abysmal." "Doesn't she care for that ?" "Just enough, as you saw, to hug me till I cry out.

She's too pleased with herself for anything else to matter." "Surely, my dear friend," I rejoined, "she has a good deal to be pleased with!" "So every one tells her, and so you would have told her if I had given you the chance.

However, that doesn't signify either, for her vanity is beyond all making or mending.