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They did not know the ridiculous good-form they cultivated was out of date. In fact, she had had enough and meant to rebel. Then she began to think about Shillito. His carelessness was strangely intriguing; he stood for adventure and all the romance she had known. Besides, he was a handsome fellow; she liked his reckless twinkle and his coolness where coolness was needed.
"We country people are verdant, Stephen, but thank heaven we escape your good-form style that is ruinous both to body and soul," said Mrs. Montgomery with considerable vehemence. "Our young women are educated to a sense of their position, and to demand that respect which they ought. Ugh! just for one moment imagine a young man of loose immoral habits seated in our parlor.
But she's a fair sample of the nice kind; and you liked her, now didn't you? you know you did." "Well, yes, I did," admitted Imogen, rather grudgingly. "She was really quite nice, and good-form, and all that, and Isabel said she was far and away the best sister-in-law yet, and the Squire took such a fancy to her that it was quite remarkable.