"So soon!" she murmured.
"So soon," Selingman repeated.

"And now, gracious lady, here comes my visit to you.

We have a recruit, invaluable if he is indeed a recruit at heart, dangerous if he has the brains and wit to choose to make himself so.

I, on my way through life, judge men and women, and I judge them--well, with few exceptions, unerringly, but at the back of my brain there lingers something of mistrust of this young man.

I have seen others in his position accept similar proposals.