“Oh, there is nobody but the rector, mamma, and he knows we girls are not such fools as we are made to look. If Paul Markham were to marry that sort of person, I should laugh. It would be our revenge – Dolly’s and mine – whom he never would condescend to look at. It would be nuts to me.” “Did.”

“Oh, there is nobody but the rector, mamma, and he knows we girls are not such fools as we are made to look. If Paul Markham were to marry that sort of person, I should laugh. It would be our revenge – Dolly’s and mine – whom he never would condescend to look at. It would be nuts to me.” “Did.”

— Mrs. Oliphant