“Remember, I have been his wife. I have lived with him and I know him, even better than you do.”
“Yes.”
“A little while ago, you called him a brave man. Well, if physical courage is bravery, then he can certainly lay claim to that quality. James Duryea is not afraid of anything.”
“I know it.”
“Once he has made up his mind to do a certain thing, he will do that thing, though the heavens fall.”
“I understand that quality about him, too.”
“It is evident that he has made up his mind to marry Lenore.”
“Yes, I think so.”
“And the only obstacles that are in his way at the present moment stand right here; they are Nick Carter and Nan Nightingale. Is that correct?”
“Admitted—if you put aside a small one that I see at the other end of the veranda, who is called Chick.”