Love is like a color--say, blue.

There are a thousand shades of blue, and the outer shades are at last not blue at all, but green or purple.

So in love there are a thousand shades, and very, very few of them are worthy of the name.
That which Paul Howard Alexis felt at this time for Etta was merely the chivalrous instinct that teaches men their primary duty toward women--namely, to protect and respect them.

But out of this instinct grows the better thing--Love.
There are some women whose desire it is to be all things to all men instead of every thing to one.

This was the stumbling-block in the way of Etta Bamborough.