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very quietly, "that if you see any danger in my unconventionalities, I

don't care to discuss this, or any other matter, with you now or at any

time" She paused, then added in a more friendly voice: "It would be

rather a pity for us to quarrel about a thing like this"

The younginto her eyes, and he read there an

ulti you," he replied, slowly "There is

no price under heaven I would not pay for your regard None the less, I

repeat that, at the present moment, I can see only two definitions for

this mountaineer Either he is a bounder, or else he is so densely

ignorant and churlish that he is unfit to associate with you"

"I ies for Mr South," she said, "because none are

needed He is a stranger in New York, who knows nothing, and cares

nothing about the conventionalities If I chose to waive theht and , and, in a ently: "Wilfred, I'ainst the boy

You could have done a great deal to help him I wanted you to be

friends"