I suppose most people would think it audacity, not courage." "You seem not to be aware what an important person you are--how almost sensationally important.

Why, I am only a pebble on a shore like yours, a little unknown slip of a girl who babbles, and babbles in vain." She got to her feet now.

"Oh, but believe me, believe me," she said, with sweet and sudden earnestness, "I am prouder than I can say that you will let me be a friend of yours! I like men who have done things, who do things.

My grandfather did big, world-wide things, and--" "Yes, I know; I met your grandfather once.

He was a big man, big as can be.