Why do you stick to that little cockney pup ?" "I don't know." "You ruined a decent man to pick him out of the gutter.

Why don't you drop him back ?" "I don't know." "Do you--ah--care for him ?" "No." "Then why--" She shook her head.
"Quite right," said Malcourt, rising; "you're in the wrong planet, too.
And the sooner you realise it the sooner we'll meet again.

Good-bye." She turned horribly pale, stammering something about his coming with her, resisting a little as he drew her out, down the stairs, and aided her to enter the depot-wagon.

There he kissed her; and she caught him around the neck, holding him convulsively.
"Nonsense," he whispered.

"I've talked it all over with father; he and I'll talk it over some day with you.