'The Southern Cross isn't worth looking at unless someone helps you to see.

That steamer's out of hearing.' 'Dick,' she said quietly, 'suppose I were to come to you now,--be quiet a minute,--just as I am, and caring for you just as much as I do.' 'Not as a brother, though You said you didn't--in the Park.' 'I never had a brother.

Suppose I said, "Take me to those places, and in time, perhaps, I might really care for you," what would you do ?' 'Send you straight back to where you came from, in a cab.

No, I wouldn't; I'd let you walk.

But you couldn't do it, dear.