I don't know
if you've noticed that if a girl makes a scene and she's got the looks
for it, she gets offers of marriage, like they do in the police-court
when they've been wronged and the magistrate passes all the men's
letters on to the court missionary and the girl and the missionary go
through them and choose the likeliest fellow out of the bunch?"
"But my dear young lady----" Fosdike began.
She silenced him. "Oh, it's all right. I don't know that I want to get
married."
"Then you ought to," said Sir William virtuously.
"There's better things in life than getting married," Dolly said. "I've
weighed up marriage, and I don't see what there is in it for a girl
nowadays."
"In your case, I should have thought there was everything."
Dolly sniffed. "There isn't liberty," she said. "And we won the fight
for liberty, didn't we? No; if I made that scene it 'ud be to get my
photograph in the papers where the film people could see it. I've the
right face for the pictures, and my romantic history will do the rest."
"Good heavens, girl," cried the scandalised Sir William, "have you no
reverence at all? The pictures! You'd turn all my disinterested efforts
to ridicule.
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