"Has no one ever moved you, Fenella?
Have you never known what it is to care for any one ?" "Never," she replied.

"I only hope that I never shall." "Why not ?" "Because I am a gambler," she declared; "because to me it would mean risking everything.

And I have seen no man in the whole world strong enough and big enough for that.

You are my very dear friend, Arnold, and you are feeling very sentimental, and your head is turned just a little, but after all you are only a boy.

The taste of life is not yet between your teeth." He leaned closer towards her.