You won't tell anyone, will you ?" "Why not ?" demanded Sir Beverley.
Gracie pulled down her red lips, and cast up her dancing eyes.

"There'd be such a scandal," she said.
Piers broke into an involuntary laugh, and Sir Beverley's thin lips twitched in a reluctant smile.
"You're a saucy little baggage!" he observed.

"Well, get on! Let's hear what you've come for! Cadging money, I'll be bound." Gracie nodded in eager confirmation of this suggestion.

"That's just it!" she said.

"And that's where the scandal would come in if you told.