"But won't Kate ?" "Miss Danton is superb; she ought to marry an emperor; but no, destiny has put her foot in it.

Captain Danton's second daughter should be the one." "You really think so ?" "I really do." "How unfortunate!" said Stanford, stroking his mustache.

"Do you think it can be remedied ?" "I think so." "By jilting--it's an ugly word, too--by jilting Kate ?" "Precisely." "But she will break her heart." "No, she won't.

I am a physician, and I know.

Hearts never break, except in women's novels.