He knew, as well as you or I, that women will dance and flirt with--even marry--men who are not gentlemen.

Not only for the moment, but as a permanency, something seems to kill their perception of a fact which is patent to every educated man in the room; and one never knows what it is.

One can only surmise that it is that thirst for admiration which does more harm in the world than the thirst for alcoholic stimulant which we fight with societies and guilds, oaths and little snips of ribbon.
"The idea never entered my head," said Gordon.
"It has never been out of mine," replied Durnovo, with a little harsh laugh which was almost pathetic.

"I don't want you to do anything now," he went on more gently.

It was wonderful how well he knew Maurice Gordon.