"You did the right thing, child.

Don't be drawn into doing what others do! Strike out a straight line for yourself, and stick to it! Above all, don't be ashamed of sticking to it! No woman was ever yet the better or the more attractive for cultivating her talent for flirting.
Don't you know that it is your very genuineness and straightforwardness that is your charm ?" Dinah looked at him in sheer surprise.

"I haven't got any charm," she said.

"That's just the trouble.

It was only my dancing that made your brother fancy I had last night." Scott's frown deepened, became almost formidable, then suddenly vanished in a laugh.