But, Van, won't you be better now?
Won't you break from it all and be your own self again?
I have faith in you.

I believe it's in you to become a great man and a good man.

It isn't too late to begin all over again.

Just be your better self; live up to the best that's in you; if not for your own sake, then for the sake of that other girl that's coming into your life some time; that other girl who is good and sweet and pure, whom you will really, really love and who will really, really love you." * * * * * All the rest of that month Vandover was wretched.

So great was his shame and humiliation over this fresh disaster that he hardly dared to show himself out of doors.