The Van Camp has been affecting me a good deal lately.

She says my manners are so pleasing, and besides, Lucien once told her she painted better than I did.

The princess is a great friend of hers." "Why didn't you go ?" Kendal asked, without any appreciable show of curiosity.

If he had been looking closely enough he would have seen that she was waiting for his question.
"Oh, it lies somehow, that sort of thing, outside my idea of life.

I have nothing to say to it, and it has nothing to say to me." Kendal smiled introspectively.