Finally she said: "If she does, it is quite unconsciously.

Consciously, I feel almost sure that Maryon Rooke still occupies her thoughts." "I wonder where she finds the great attraction in him ?" queried Kitty thoughtfully.
"Simply this: That he was the first and, go far, the only man who has ever appealed to her at all.

And as he has treated her rather badly, he's succeeded in fixing himself in her mind." "Well, I've never understood the affair at all.

Rooke was in love if ever a man was." "Yes," agreed Penelope slowly.

"But I think Maryon Rooke is what I should describe as--a born bachelor." "Then he's no business philandering round with women who aren't born spinsters," retorted Kitty promptly.
Penelope's brown eyes twinkled.
"You're rather limiting his horizon," she observed.
Kitty laughed.
"Possibly.