Then why this air of discovery ?" But it did not get Katie into the smoke.

He made no effort to get her in, but after a moment came back to her with a kindly: "I am glad you have such a friend, Katie.

It will do you good." That inward chuckle showed no disposition to dissolve into anything; it fought hard to be just a live, healthy chuckle.
Moved by an impulse half serious, half mischievous she asked: "You would say then, Wayne, that Ann seems to you more of a lady than Zelda Fraser ?" Wayne's real answer lay in his look of disgust.

He did condescend to put into words: "Oh, don't be absurd, Katie." "But Zelda has a splendid ancestry," she pressed.
"And suggests a chorus girl." That stilled her.

It left her things to think about.
At last she asked: "And Wayne, which would you say I was ?" He came back from a considerable distance.