Peggy went on as if unconscious of the challenge.
"He has been bored to death, poor fellow, in the house all this time, and--" "Miss Gray, please do not mention Mr.Brewster's name to me again," interrupted Barbara, with a contraction of the eyebrows.

But Peggy was seized with a spirit of defiance and plunged recklessly on.
"What is the use, Miss Drew, of taking an attitude like that?
I know the situation pretty well, and I can't believe that either Monty or you has lost in a week a feeling that was so deep-seated.

I know Monty much too well to think that he would change so easily." Peggy still lived largely in her ideals.

"And you are too fine a thing not to have suffered under this misunderstanding.

It seems as if a very small word would set you both straight." Barbara drew herself up and kept her eyes on the road which lay white and gleaming in the sun.