"I feel like Rip Van Winkle. I believe several generations have gone by without my noticing it. But I've made up my mind to learn something about this one. When do your brother and Miss Dane expect to be married?"
"In June. How do you like Helen?"
"She was very kind. I shouldn't say it, perhaps, but wasn't there something of the Lady Bountiful about it all?"
Judy laughed.
"Helen likes patronizing the arts. The arts are very fashionable just now in her set. I like Helen, really. If only she and her friends weren't so fond of posing—and they find new poses every year—one would like them better. But it isn't as if Noel were marrying her. Gordon has always seemed to belong to other people's families more than to his own, and now of course he'll be entirely absorbed by Lord Ottway's, and their friends and relations."
"He's not a bit like your brother Noel. I think Noel is one of the most attractive young men I ever met. He has such a way of making one feel his friend at once."
"Of course there's no one like him," said Judy, delighted at this praise, "but Gordon's the one who'll succeed."
