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"Well, what did she expect?" Honey asked

"That I'd let her keep them - that I'd let her fly the way Peachy did!

Or - what do you suppose she suggested? - that I cut them off now"

"Well, as her idea in that?" Billy's tone was the ac as I wouldn't let her keep theht as well not have the all right, all right Why, it

would destroy half Angela's charht of hers, half on the ground, half in the air, is so lovely, so

engaging, so endearing - -But of course letting her fly high would be

- "

"Absurd," Ralph interrupted

"Dangerous," Honey interpolated

"Unwomanly," Pete added

"Immodest," Billy concluded

"Well, thank God it's all over," Ralph went on "But, as I say, I give

up guessing what's changed her, unless it's the principle that constant

dropping wears away the stone Oscar Wilde had the answer They're

sphinxes without secrets They do anything that occurs to the with, the theot that idea firmly fixed

in their minds now - that they're to stay where we put theled as if in discomfort "Seems to me, Ralph, you take a

pretty cold-blooded view of the situation I guess I don't go very far