"Something of the sort," answered Wade. "I wonder, though, if that is true, Miss Walton?"
"What?" asked Eve.
"That it's better to have loved and lost than never to have loved at all."
"I'm sure I don't know. Probably not. Perhaps, like a great many of the Doctor's quotations, it's more poetical than truthful."
"I think it must be," mused Wade. "It doesn't sound logical to me. To say that, when you've seen a thing you want and can't have it, you're better off than before you wanted it, doesn't sound like sense."
"Have you ever wanted much you didn't get?" asked Eve.
Wade thought a minute.
"Come to think of it, Miss Walton, I don't believe I have. I can't think of anything just now. Perhaps that's why I'd hate all the more to be deprived of what I want now," he said, seriously. She shot a glance at him from under the edge of the sunshade.
"You talk as though some one was trying to cheat you out of something you'd set your heart on," she said lightly.
"That isn't far wrong," he answered. "I have set my heart on something and it doesn't look now as though I'd ever get it."