Phyllis Bottome

“ She took a deep breath before she answered him; then she said with kindly patience:
"Come, Geoffrey, do you really mean to say that you think Monsieur Dupin has taken Fanny to Paris to treat her like a sister?"
Geoffrey swore under his breath. She had him there. He knew quite well Marcel would not treat Fanny like a sister.
He felt as if the summer-house was extremely small and as if he could n't get out of it. Emily filled it; she filled everything, and she was being more sensible than she was adorable.
"Men always stick up for each other in the most absurd way," she said after a pause. ”

“ I have gone with Monsieur Dupin to Paris. It was n't his fault. I made him take me.
Fanny.
"Is n't it incredible! Is n't it utterly loathsome and base!" Emily almost shrieked at Geoffrey as they entered a small summer-house together. They had to get somewhere out of the wind.
"I can't understand it," Geoffrey muttered helplessly.
"Understand it!" cried Emily. "What is there to understand? The man is a cad, simply an unscrupulous French roué; and Fanny—I see that now; I trusted her too much—Fanny is really bad. I never knew human nature could be so utterly vile. ”

“ There are some women whom high winds suit; they look their best with their hair blown about their eyes, their clothes flowing, and their color heightened. Geoffrey had thought that Fanny in a wind was like the figure in the Naples Museum called "A Girl Hastening." But Emily was not slim enough to hasten, and moral indignation and a high wind proved very unbecoming to her. She came down the garden path as if she were being pushed from behind. Geoffrey saw that she had already heard from Fanny. ”