She smiled at him before she went on,
“It is, of course, most flattering, but you know as well as I do that without Lyndon Hall, no one would have given me a second glance.”
Charles knew she was right and he thought it was so like Rania to be modest enough to say so.
“I like you,” he said, “as you are and whatever you are wearing. I am sure that is what Dragonfly thinks too!”
“Of course he does as would any sensible human being!”
She gave a little sigh.
“I think it is rather sad that clothes matter so much to these people. That is, if you can afford them.”
“I am not stopping you from putting on all your old rags and tatters, but just think how disappointed all those elegant young men would be.”
“Half the time,” she laughed, “they are just thinking about their own appearance rather
