"You."
"What exactly do you mean by that answer?"
"I don't know, myself, Japonette," he said laughingly; "I've tried to analyze it, too. The instinct of relationship may have counted."
"I hope it did," said she.
"I hope so. God knows, and men are selfish.... And that counted, too."
"What?"
"Selfishness."
"I don't believe there is very much in you."
"That is where your heart is still a child's heart, Japonette."
"Oh, I'm no altruist, but there's selfishness and selfishness.... What were we talking about? Oh! why you desired to join——"