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And it really has happened." "What has she done ?" he asked curiously.
His sister's eyes were searching his very diligently, as though in quest of something elusive; and he gazed serenely back, the most unsuspicious of smiles touching his mouth.
"Phil, dear, a young girl--a very young girl--is a vapid and uninteresting proposition to a man of thirty-five; isn't she ?" "Rather--in some ways." "In what way is she not ?" "Well--to me, for example--she is acceptable as children are acceptable--a blessed, sweet, clean relief from the women of the Fanes' set, for example ?" "Like Rosamund ?" "Yes.

And, Ninette, you and Austin seem to be drifting out of the old circles--the sort that you and I were accustomed to.