Come down to the shore for a breath of air, and I'll tell you all about it!" He linked his arm again in Crowther's, obviously glad to be gone; but when they had left the glittering place behind them, he still talked inconsequently about a thousand things till in his calm fashion Crowther turned him back.
"I don't want you to tell me anything personal," he said, "save one thing.

This girl whom you hope to marry--I gather you are pretty sure of her ?" Piers threw back his head with a gesture that defied the world.

"I am quite sure of her," he said; and a moment later, with impulsive confidence: "She has just taken the trouble to write at length and tell me why she can't have me." "Ah ?" Crowther's tone held curiosity as well as kindly sympathy.

"A sound reason ?" "No reason at all," flung back Piers, still with his face to the stars.
"She knows that as well as I do.

I tell you, Crowther, I know the way to that woman's heart, and I could find it blindfold.