I sized them up right away.

I was clever enough for that.

They were no good.

I thought you would get enough of it." "Oh, I don't know," said Vandover after a while, as he settled to his drawing.

"She was pretty common, but anyhow I don't want to help bring down a poor girl like that any lower than she is already." This saying struck Vandover as being very good and noble, and he found occasion to repeat it to young Haight the next day.
But within three days of this, at the time when Vandover would have fancied himself farthest from such a thing, he underwent a curious reaction.