Ethel Tuckerman fell out with Lane Cross, because she discovered him making love to Irma Ottley.
Irma and Bliss Bridge released each other, the latter transferring his affections to Georgia Timberlake.

Stephanie Platow, by far the most individual of them all, developed a strange inconsequence as to her deeds.

It was when she was drawing near the age of twenty that the affair with Gardner Knowles began.

After a time Lane Cross, with his somewhat earnest attempt at artistic interpretation and his superiority in the matter of years--he was forty, and young Knowles only twenty-four--seemed more interesting to Stephanie, and he was quick to respond.

There followed an idle, passionate union with this man, which seemed important, but was not so at all.