He's the kind of man that suggests--menageries--lions--danger if the bars break." "How women do like that in a man!" "Do you know him ?" "Through and through.

He's a fraud, of course, like all politicians.

But beneath the fraud there's a man--I think--a great, big man, strong and sure of himself--which is what can't be said of many of us who wear trousers and pose as lords of creation." The girl seemed to have ceased to listen, was apparently watching the dancers, Arkwright continued to gaze at his friend, to admire the impressive, if obviously posed, effect of his handsome head and shoulders.

He smiled with a tender expression, as one smiles at the weakness of those one loves.

Suddenly he said: "By Jove, Rita--just the thing!" "What ?" asked the girl, resuming the languid waving of her eagle fan.
"Marry him--marry Josh Craig.