Who said it ?" "You don't mean to say," he continued perversely, "that I have monopolised the reigning beauty of Palm Beach for an entire morning." "Yes, you have and it is high time you understood it.

_Who_ said this to _you_ ?" "Well--I gathered the fact--" "Who ?" "My aunt--Miss Palliser." "Do you know," said Shiela Cardross slowly, "that Miss Palliser has been exceedingly nice to me?
But her friend, Miss Suydam, is not very civil." "I'm awfully sorry," he said.
"I could tell you that it mattered nothing," she said, looking straight at him; "and that would be an untruth.

I know that many people disregard such things--many are indifferent to the opinion of others, or say they are.

I never have been; I want everybody to like me--even people I have not the slightest interest in--people I do not even know--I want them all to like me.

For I must tell you, Mr.Hamil, that when anybody dislikes me, and I know it, I am just as unhappy about it as though I cared for them." "It's absurd for anybody not to like you!" he said.
"Well, do you know it really is absurd--if they only knew how willing I am to like everybody....