I came for that purpose.

You know how sorry I am we are rivals; but I agree with what you said--we needn't be enemies." "It wasn't that I meant.

But you don't ask how I fared." "Well, I was expecting you would tell me, if there was anything to tell." "I went, you know, to ask her to be my wife." Stafford nodded.
"Well, did you ?" "No, not exactly." "I thought not." "I tried to--I mean I wasn't kept back by loyalty to you--you mustn't think that.

But she wouldn't let me." "I thought she wouldn't." Eugene began to understand his state of mind.

In another man such confidence would have made him angry; but he had only pity for Stafford.
"I must try and make him understand," he thought.
"Charley," he began, "I don't think you quite follow, and it's not very easy to explain.