"Gad! That's true. He's hard enough to handle, at best. With this added—Yet I cannot but make the effort. I'll phone Mr. Griffith."
"Griffith? What's the use of wasting time? There's just one person who can save him, and you know it."
"No, unless Griffith—"
"Are you absolutely stupid? Can't you see? It's Vievie alone who—"
"Genevieve!"
"Now's the time for her to do something. She must prove her love. That alone can stop him."
"If she does love him."
"Can you doubt it?"
"She has doubted it."
"She may think she does. But it's all due to mamma's knocking and
suggesting. Vievie loves him as much as he loves her. Needn't tell me!
I know all about it. She made him fail—the time you took him up to
Michamac. This time it's all mamma's fault. Vievie has got to save him!"