“And why?”
“I suppose I was just used up, that’s all.”
“Frightful!”
“I never had much of a voice — and the tobacco smoke — and the wine — I love wine.”
She gulped down her glass.
“And do you like your present occupation?”
“Why not? Am I not young? Am I not pretty?”
This she said not parrotwise, but with a simple coquettishness that was all her own.
On the way to the steamer a few moments later, Ernest asked, half-reproachfully: “Jack — and you really enjoyed this conversation?”