Thorn smiled.
"It's an excellent motto; but they chose it some time since.

One imagines it's out of date now." Grace colored and moved away, feeling embarrassed.

She had made herself ridiculous, and perhaps sentiment such as she had indulged was cheap; but it hurt to feel that she, so to speak, stood alone.

Although she had, no doubt, been imprudent, she had said what she felt, and Thorn had smiled.
She turned to him angrily when he followed her along the terrace.
"I daresay I am a raw sentimentalist, but I'm glad I'm not up to date," she said.

"I hate your modern smartness!" Thorn, noting the hardness of her voice, stopped with an apologetic gesture and let her go..