And I ask you, because I don't know, can any amends be made to--the person you mentioned--by my offering her the sort and condition of man I now am ?" "You've got to, haven't you ?" asked Duane.
"Oh! Is that it?
A sort of moral formality ?" "It's conventional; yes.

It's expected." "By whom ?" "All the mess that goes to make up this compost heap we call society....
I think she also would expect it." Dysart nodded.
"If you could make her happy it would square a great many things, Dysart." The other looked up: "You ?" "I--don't know.

Yes, in many ways; in that way at all events--if you made her happy." Dysart stepped forward: "Would you be nice to her if I did?
No other soul in the world knows except you.

Other people would be nice to her.
Would _you_?
And would you have the woman you marry receive her ?" "Yes." "That is square of you, Mallett....

I meant to do it, anyway....