“Well, I have a beautiful wife, who has learned to love another man, who in his turn loves another. That other is my lovely sister, about whom all that is known is that she is the sister of Silk Lasso Sam.”
“Well, it shows how unworthily two beautiful women have loved, for I simply apply to myself the praise you have bestowed, not to speak of many others.”
“Oh, yes, you are beautiful—so is a serpent.”
“Thanks.”
“Now, to this man?”
“Who?”
“The one who you say has fallen in love with my sister.”
“What of him?”
“That is what I wish to ask you, Miss De Sutro?”
“Well, he is a man in the true sense of the word, one of nature’s noblemen, as they say in novels. He is handsome, too, has won a deserved name for gallantry on the field, and what is most remarkable, is popular with both men and women.”