"Pride is such a good thing, my dear, clear, straight pride like theirs—and they were both so proud!...
"Isn't it good, dear, to think that once you and I may have looked like that to some passer-by. I wish I could bless them—sweet, swift young things! I wish, dear, it was possible for old men to bless young people without seeming to set up for saints...."
BOOK THE SECOND
MARJORIE MARRIED
CHAPTER THE FIRST
Settling Down
§ 1
It was in a boat among reeds upon the lake of Orta that Trafford first became familiarized with the idea that Marjorie was capable of debt.
"Oh, I ought to have told you," she began, apropos of nothing.