"Now, if you can do that, you can do anything."

"And so I would do anything."

"You would?"

"Honour!"

"Then"…his project recurred to him. But the incongruity of speaking seriously to Sir Julius struck him dumb.

"Then what?" asked she.

"Then you're a gallant fellow."

"That all?"

"Isn't it enough?"

"Not quite. You were going to say something. I saw it in your eyes."