In this case, however, I don't think there is much risk: even the most unscrupulous person could hardly say that--that----" "That we were becoming Herbert Courtland's champions, because we were in love with him ?" "Well, I don't know.

Wasn't that what you meant to suggest people would say of a woman who became a man's champion ?" "Something in that way.

How straightforwardly you speak out what's on your mind!" "Oh, I'm a girl of to-day.

I have got over all those absurd affectations of childishness which used to be thought feminine long ago.

The gambols of the kitten were once thought the most attractive thing on earth, and they are very interesting: but for the full-grown cat to pretend that it is perfectly happy with a ball of worsted, when all the time it has its heart set on a real mouse, is nonsense." "That is an allegory, a subtle parable, Phyllis.