"Everybody?" Justine gave a mocking lift to her dark eyebrows.
"Well--Westy
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Justine echoed the laugh, but offered no comment on the statement which accompanied it, and for a moment both women were silent, Bessy tilting her pretty discontented head against the back of the chair, so that her eyes were on a level with
Cheap Louis Vuitton Bags those of her friend, who leaned near her in the embrasure of the window.
"I can't understand you, Justine. You know well enough what he's come back for."
"In order to dazzle Hanaford with the fact that he has been staying at Lynbrook!"
"Nonsense--the novelty of that has worn off. He's been here three times since we came back."
"You are admirably hospitable to your family----"
Bessy let her pretty
jordan heels ringed hands fall with a discouraged gesture. "Why do you find him so much worse than--than other people?"
Justine's eye-brows rose again. "In the same capacity? You speak as if I had boundless opportunities of comparison."
"Well, you've Dr. Wyant!" Mrs. Amherst suddenly flung back at her.
Justine coloured under the unexpected thrust, but met her friend's eyes steadily. "As an alternative to Westy? Well, if I were
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Bessy frowned and sighed. "You can't mean that, of the two--?" She paused and then went on doubtfully: "It's because he's cleverer?"
"Dr. Wyant?" Justine smiled. "It's not making an enormous claim for him!"
"Oh, I know Westy's not brilliant; but stupid men are not always the hardest to live with." She sighed again, and turned
Ugg boots clearance on Justine a glance charged with conjugal experience.
Justine had sunk into the window-seat, her thin hands clasping her knee, in the attitude habitual to her meditative moments. "Perhaps not," she assented; "but I don't know that I should care for a man who made life easy; I should want some one who made it interesting."