"Oh, he's just a lout," she said.

"He doesn't know any better.

It isn't as if you had done it." "That would have been different, would it ?" said Knight.
She smiled, but a sombre light still shone in her eyes.

"Quite different," she said with simplicity.

"You see, you're a gentleman.
And--gentlemen--don't do unpleasant things like that." He laughed a little.