Then, even though she might be willing to break the tie through stress of circumstances, he would stand aloof.

There was only one thing greater than his persistency--his pride.

She was the belle who, in his set, had been admired most generally, and his god was success--success in everything on which he placed his heart, or, rather, mind.

For her to become engaged to Graydon, and then, because of his poverty, to be willing to renounce him for a more fortunate man, would not answer at all.

He must appear to the world to have won her in fair competition with all others, and the girl had an instinctive knowledge of this fact.