"And you looked on!"
"To be sure, and envied you your damned good luck. She's an adorable creature, and would spend your money with distinction."
"Thanks. I needn't have come so far to find a woman who could manage that."
"I'm in the enemy's camp," De Poincy went on. "I want you to settle in France."
"And I—I want—"
Gano looked out over the dancing waves, face to face on a sudden with something so new and unexpected as to be almost incredible.
"What do you want?" asked De Poincy.
"I want to go back to America by the first boat."
"You're joking."
"I'm in dead earnest. It sounds sudden, but it isn't. Something's been the matter with me for a deuce of a long time. I haven't known what it was. I do now. I'm homesick."