But he is evidently beginning to be rather important, and he can't get away very easily.

He asked a good many questions about you, and wanted to know if I thought you were happy and well." "I see." Again the absence of interest in Phyllis's tone was so marked as to be almost unnatural.
Molly dismissed the subject with a far better executed air of indifference.
"And you are really going to marry Earl Wyverton," she said.

"How nice, Phyl! Did he make love to you ?" There was a distinct pause before Phyllis replied.

"No.

There was no need." "He didn't!" ejaculated Molly.
"I didn't encourage him to," Phyllis confessed.