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A SOCIAL METHOR. _ 85 objections to everything I propose? You seem to think ’'m a child, and you thwart me contin- ually. It’s too much, I declare,” she went on ex- citedly; “you are really too prudish and old-fash- ioned to put up with.” For the first time Georgie was really of- fended. “Tm sorry you’re disappointed in me,’ she said, icily, “but perhaps it’s just as well that I should know it, before we go any further. I scarcely see why you should call me either ‘pru- dish’ or ‘old-fashioned,’ however, simply because I don’t choose to fly into the face of propriety. / remember, if you don’t, that we are two women alone in a hotel, and that we should be particu- larly careful of our actions on that account, and not do things deliberately which might astonish even our own friends. As it is, I don’t think we're altogether above criticism, now.” “I suppose you refer to the cognac I take oc- casionally after my coffee,’ sneered Ray. “Not more than I do to the people you invite here. It would be well enough to see some one once in a while, but I don’t think it’s the thing for us to have people running in continually. Now, for instance, I don’t think it was necessary Eomicboo SS (E(o)