"And what am _I_ doing?
Playing MY 'game.' I'm on my way now to maneuver my grandmother.

We are well suited--he and I.In another walk of life we might have been a pair of swindlers, playing into each other's hands....
And yet I don't believe we're worse than most people.

Why, most people do these things without a thought of their being--unprincipled.

And, after all, I'm not harming anybody, am I?
That is, anybody but myself." She had her campaign carefully laid out; she had mapped it in the cab between the parsonage and the hotel.

"Grandmother," she began as the old lady looked up with a frown because of her long, unexpected absence, "I must tell you that just before we left Washington Craig broke the engagement." Madam Bowker half-started from her chair.