I have to content myself with 'the work that's nearest.'" Nap was watching her closely.

"And if I did the same," he questioned in a drawl that was unmistakably supercilious, "should I be a good man ?" "I don't know what your capabilities are," she said.
"I have vast capabilities for evil," he told her, with a cynical twist of his thin-lipped mouth.
She met his look again.

"I am sorry," she said.
"Are you really?
But why?
Doesn't the devil attract you?
Honestly now!" He leaned forward, staring straight at her, challenging her.

"I tell you frankly," he said, "I am not what you would call a good man.
But--the truth, mind!--would you like me any better if I were ?" She smiled a little.

There was undoubted fascination in the upturned face with its fiery eyes and savage jaw.