she knows quite too much. You surely remember that awful scarlet dress? Well, all her clothes have arrived, or remained, at a simplicity and vividness that is‚ÅÝ‚Äîwell‚ÅÝ‚Äîimmodest.‚Äù
“Does she think them immodest?”
“What she thinks is a problem.”
“ The problem, you mean?”
“Well, yes.”
They paused a moment. Then Miss Smith said slowly:
“What I don’t understand, I don’t judge.”
“No, but you can’t always help seeing and meeting it,” laughed Miss Taylor.
“Certainly not. I don’t try; I court the meeting and seeing. It is the only way.”
‚ÄúWell, perhaps, for us‚ÅÝ‚Äîbut not for a boy like Bles, and a girl like Zora.‚Äù
“True; men