His sister,--that's Lady Penwether, told me they were certainly engaged then." "That was before the Paragon had been named for Patagonia.

To tell you a little bit of my own private mind,--which isn't scandal," said Mounser Green, "because it is only given as opinion,--I think it just possible that the Paragon has taken this very uncomfortable mission because it offered him some chance of escape." "Then he has more sense about him than I gave him credit for," said Archibald Currie.
"Why should a man like Morton go to Patagonia ?" continued Green.

"He has an independent fortune and doesn't want the money.

He'd have been sure to have something comfortable in Europe very soon if he had waited, and was much better off as second at a place like Washington.
I was quite surprised when he took it." "Patagonia isn't bad at all," said Currie.
"That depends on whether a man has got money of his own.

When I heard about the Paragon and Bell Trefoil at Washington, I knew there had been a mistake made.