[Patty Blossom by Carolyn Wells]@TWC D-Link bookPatty Blossom CHAPTER III 12/19
"The idea, Phil, of your ordering me around like that! I want to stay, and I'm going to stay. You can go, if you like; I'll come home with Roger and the girls." "But I don't like it, Patty, and I don't like to have you here. It's--it's----" "Well, what is it? I think it's great fun, and I'm going to see it out." "Even if I ask you not to? Even if I beg you to go----" "Even if you beg me on your bended knees! You're silly, Phil.
It can't be wrong if the Farringtons stand for it." "It isn't exactly wrong,--not _wrong_, you know,--but, well,--it's cheap." "Oh, fiddlesticks! I like it.
I don't mind it's being cheap, I'm tired of expensive things and glad of a change." "Oh, I don't mean that way," and Van Reypen looked genuinely distressed.
"I wouldn't care how poor people were, if they were----" "Respectable ?" "No, not that, these people are respectable, of course.
But,--sincere, that's what I mean.
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