"This idea of yours is, after all, only the play of the scientific mind." "I shall contradict you flat if I choose," Gordon went on.
"Ah, it 's well to warn me of that," said Bernard, laughing.

"Even the most sincere judgment in the world likes to be notified a little of the danger of being contradicted." "Is yours the most sincere judgment in the world ?" Gordon demanded.
"That 's a very pertinent question.

Does n't it occur to you that you may have reason to be jealous--leaving me alone, with an open field, with the woman of your choice ?" "I wish to heaven I could be jealous!" Gordon exclaimed.

"That would simplify the thing--that would give me a lift." And the next day, after some more talk, it seemed really with a hope of this contingency--though, indeed, he laughed about it--that he started for England..