She doesn't like him." "I suppose," said Meldon, "that you spent the afternoon crabbing him; saying all the evil you could think of about him.

But you've wasted your time.

Miss King's views of marriage are entirely unconventional.
She doesn't marry her husbands with the intention of living with them.
The less she likes a man the more willing she is to marry him, because she'll feel less compunction afterwards if she thoroughly detests her husband to start with." "She won't marry Simpkins, any how," said the Major obstinately.
"Did she tell you so ?" "Not in plain words.

I gathered that she wouldn't from the way she spoke of him." "You've gathered, as you call it, so many entirely wrong things from the way Miss King speaks, that you can place absolutely no reliance on this impression of yours.

You gathered, for instance, that she isn't Mrs.Lorimer." "I did." "And you are wrong about that, so the chances are that you're wrong about this too.