"He has been putting it about all over the place.

I've been dreading it." Then she sprang to her feet and drew herself up and snapped her fingers in an heroical way.

"And if he has said that Althea Fenimore drowned herself for love of Leonard Boyce, what is there in it?
After all, what has Leonard Boyce done that he can't be forgiven?
Men are men and women are women.

We've tried for tens of thousands of years to lay down hard and fast lines for the sexes to walk upon, and we've failed miserably.

Suppose Leonard Boyce did make love to Althea Fenimore--trifle with her affections, in the old-fashioned phrase.