Besides, somehow, I feel certain that Sam's brother would tell John to go to Arizona"-- she pointed piteously to her trunk: "It's packed; it has been packed for weeks.

I'm all ready to go with him.

Why can't a man mould clay and chip marble and cast bronze as well in Arizona as in this vile pest-hole ?" Valerie sat with folded hands looking at her.
"How do you think _you_ could stand that desolation ?" "Arizona ?" "Yes." "There is another desolation I dread more." "Do you really love him so ?" Rita slowly turned from the window and looked at her.
"Yes," she said.
[Illustration: "'And they--the majority of them--are, after all, just men.'"] "Does he know it, Rita ?" "No, dear." "Do you think--if he did--" "No....

How could it be--after what has happened to me ?" "You would tell him ?" "Of course.

I sometimes wonder whether he has not already heard--something--from that beast--" "Does John know him ?" "He has done two fountains for his place at El Nauar.