But perhaps it is rather bad taste to say so, as I have been brought up as her companion from childhood." "And now you have left her ?" he said.
"Yes I have left her.

I have disapproved of her for some time," Juliet spoke thoughtfully.

"She is very unconventional, you know.

And I--well, at heart I fancy I must be rather a prude.

Anyhow, I disapproved, more and more strongly, and at last I came away." "That was rather brave of you," he commented.
"Oh, it wasn't much of a sacrifice.