That he could have weighed money in the balance with THIS! She could not have cared for the fellow, or he MUST have thrown over everything else for her.

Was it possible that she had cared--that she still cared?
'Tell me,' he asked hoarsely.

'Is it that you are fretting after somebody over there who--someone you can't marry?
There must have been a lot of men in your life.

Perhaps there was one who--whom you--loved.' His voice dropped, as it had a way of doing when he touched the sacred subject.
'There have been a lot of men,' she admitted frankly.

'But there has never been one true Man among them.