"Only, it happens that when she changed her sentiments, I changed mine, too."
"You mean there's some other girl?"
"In a way—yes," replied Claude, awkwardly.
Then, on the impulse of the moment, he plunged into an account of Janet Barr.
IV
Mr. Fontaine was distinctly uneasy. But he concealed his emotion as well as he could.
"You haven't any wild plan of marrying this young woman?" he said, adopting the air of a judicious outsider.
"I like her better than any girl I ever met."
"My boy, is that a good reason for marrying her? Take the word of an elderly man: It isn't worth while to marry solely for love, because you are bound to fall in love with somebody else as soon as the honeymoon is over."
"If not for love, what is one to marry for?"