By the way, I may as well tell you that I wasn't thinking altogether of how we are to escape.

There was something else on my mind." He stopped and looked at her puzzled face.

"Why should I save you from Marlanx just to have you hurry off and get married to Vos Engo?
It's a mean thought, I know," hastily, "and unworthy of a typical hero, but, just the same, I hate to think of you marrying some one--else." "Some one else ?" she questioned, a pucker on her forehead.
"Oh, I know I wouldn't have a ghost of a chance, even if there wasn't a Vos Engo.

It isn't that," he explained.

"I recognise the--er--difference in our stations and--" "Are you crazy, Mr.King ?" "Not now.