Fashionable or not, it is rotten sport--whatever the ethics may be.

And, Gerald, tainted sport and a clean record can't take the same fence together." The boy looked up, flushed and perplexed.

"Why, every woman in town--" "Oh, no.

How about your sister and mine ?" "Of course not; they are different.

Only--well, you approve of Rosamund Fane and--Gladys Orchil--don't you ?" "Gerald, men don't ask each other such questions--except as you ask, without expecting or desiring an answer from me, and merely to be saying something nice about two pretty women." The reproof went home, deeply, but without a pang; and the boy sat silent, studying the blotter between his elbows.
A little later he started for home at Selwyn's advice.