What is it, I wonder?
He seems to have quit everything, dancing, tennis, golf.

He doesn't care--" "Doesn't care?
What for?
That sounds either as if he were an egotist or a slacker." Her sister's words rasped Patricia's most sensitive heart string.

She visibly squirmed, eagerly waiting a chance to reply.

"Jack is neither," continued Adrien slowly.

"I understand the thing perfectly.
He has been up against big things, so big that everything else seems trivial.