Besides, when I think, perhaps, that Jack Dysart is a trifle overbearing and too free with his snubs, I go somewhere and cool off; and I think that in his heart he must like me as well as I do him because, sooner or later, we always manage to drift together again....

That is one reason why I am so particular about his wife." Another reason happened to be that he had been in love with her himself when Dysart gracefully shouldered his way between them and married Rosalie Dene.

Duane had heard something about it; and he wondered a little at the loyalty to such a friendship that this young man so naively confessed.
"I'll tell you what I think," said Duane; "I think you're the best sort of an anchor for Rosalie Dysart.

Only a fool would mistake your friendship.

But the town's full of 'em, Grandcourt," he added with a smile.
"I suppose so....