"It was after you returned from Thibet.

It said that you were largely made up of two emotions--your contempt for woman and your love of adventure; that it would be impossible for you not to see a flaw in one, and that for the other--physical excitement--you would go to the ends of the earth.

Perhaps it is this--your desire for adventure--that makes you want to go with me to Tete Jaune ?" "I am beginning to believe that it will be the greatest adventure of my life," he replied, and something in his quiet voice held her silent.

He rose to his feet, and stood before her.

"It is already the Great Adventure," he went on.