Gerard."
"What of it?" he demanded.
"Because," she replied, still laughing, "I tell you, she is perfectly
mad about you. There's no use scowling and squaring your chin. Oh, I
ought to know what that indicates! I've watched you do it often enough;
but the fact is that the handsomest and smartest woman in town is for
ever dinning your perfections into my ears--"
"I know," he said, "that this sort of stuff passes in your set for wit;
but let me tell you that any man who cares for that brand of humour can
have it any time he chooses. However, he goes outside the residence
district to find it."
She flushed scarlet at his brutality; he drew up a chair, seated himself
very deliberately, and spoke, his unlighted pipe in his left hand:
"The girl I left--the girl who left me--was a modest, clean-thinking,
clean-minded girl, who also had a brain to use, and employed it.
Whatever conclusion that girl arrived at concerning the importance of
marriage-vows is no longer my business; but the moment she confronts me
again, offering friendship, then I may use a friend's privilege, as I
do.
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