They don't know how to be honest with the men they love, and they wouldn't if they did.

You are little short of an idiot, Monty Brewster, if you believed the things she said rather than the things she looked." And Peggy, fiery and determined and defiantly unhappy, threw down her cards and escaped so that she might not prove herself tearfully feminine.

She left Brewster still heavily enveloped in melancholy; but she left him puzzled.

He began to wonder if Barbara Drew did have something in the back of her mind.

Then he found his thoughts wandering off toward Peggy and her defiance.