21/29 And if he had been asked the question I just asked you, he could have answered it. He could have said: 'I have been a leader in a group in which I was, an athlete, an oarsman, and the most superb physical specimen of my race'-- brought up, too, he might have added, in the same traditions that I had had. Well, that wasn't enough, Mr.Wayne, and that was a good deal. If my father had only made me wait, only given me time to see that my choice was the choice of ignorance, that the man I thought a hero was, oh, the most pitifully commonplace clay--Mathilde shan't make my mistake." Wayne's eyes lit up. |