"Why not, if he has everything he wants?"
"He has not everything he wants; no one has, as a matter of fact. It would not be good for us. You have not all you want."
"No, I have not; but I get along very well."
"What is missing out of your life?" he asked.
"I can hardly tell you."
"My friend's life is overcast by a great calamity that befell his family some years ago."
"What was it?" she asked, and a slight shiver passed through her.
"His brother was accused of murder, of shooting the husband of the woman he had fallen in love with. He was condemned and reprieved; he is at Dartmoor now. That is enough to make his brother's life unhappy; it killed the Admiral, their father."
"How shocking!" she said.
"I never thought of it before, but, strange to say, the man's name was Elroy. It is your name," he said.