"Oh!" ejaculated Cecile. "That's Judson Bane, the Broadway star, she's
walking with. I'd like to know him myself."
"You coarse little thing!" drawled Marian.
"And you not out yet!" Prue, the second sister, observed cuttingly.
"You're only a child. I wish you'd learn your place and keep it."
"Oh, fudge!" responded L'Enfant Terrible, not deeply impressed by these
sisterly admonitions.
Marian was twenty-six--two years Lawford's senior. She was a heavy,
lymphatic girl, fast becoming as matronly of figure as her mother. She
still bolstered up her belief that she had matrimonial prospects; but
the men who wanted to marry her she would not have while those she
desired to marry would not have her. Marian Tapp was becoming bored.
Prue was a pretty girl. She was but nineteen. However, she had
likewise assumed a bored air after being in society a single season.
"That big actor man will put poor Fordy's nose out of joint with the
film lady," Prue said. "Look out for that dog, Cis. It's the
Perritons'.
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