Yet at the end of three months Miss De Voe shook her head.
"He is absolutely a gentleman, and people seem to like him.

Yet somehow--I don't understand it." "Exactly," laughed Lispenard.

"You can't make a silk purse out of a sow's ear." "Lispenard," angrily said Miss De Voe, "Mr.Stirling is as much better than--" "That's it," said Lispenard.

"Don't think I'm depreciating Peter.

The trouble is that he is much too good a chap to make into a society or a lady's man." "I believe you are right.