"And is that beautiful girl, Lady Sybil Caroom, still staying there?
"Yes," he answered. "Is she very beautiful, by the bye?"
"Well, I thought men would think so," Selina said, hastily. "I think
that she is just a little loud, don't you, Louise?"
Louise admitted that the idea had occurred to her.
"And her hair--isn't it badly dyed?" Selina remarked. "Such a pity.
It's all in patches."
"I think girls ought not to make up in the street, either," Louise
remarked, primly. "A little powder in the house is all very
well"--(Louise had a nose which gave her trouble)--"but I really don't
think it looks respectable in the street."
"I suppose," Selina remarked, "you men admire all that sort of thing,
don't you?
"I really hadn't noticed it with Lady Sybil," Brooks admitted.
Selina sighed.
"Men are so blind," she remarked. "You watch next time you are close to
her, Mr. Brooks."
"I will," he promised. "I'll get her between me and a window in a
strong north light."
Selina laughed.
"Don't be too unkind," she said. "That's the worst of you men. When
you do find anything out you are always so severe.
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