I don't see how I could have kept from it." "Good gracious! There're always ways, but what sort of truth was it?
You see, it's been so long since I've met one," she explained airily, "that I don't even know what they're like." "It was about Mrs.Pletheridge's gown--the one she wanted her to buy, you know.

I told her it didn't suit her.

And it didn't--you know it didn't," she concluded emphatically.
"Of course it didn't, but I don't see why you had to go and tell her." "She asked me.

They both asked me, and if I'd lied she wouldn't have believed me.

You can't fool people so outrageously, and I wouldn't if I could.