"I can't deny that.

And I find you as I believed I should." Then he added, seriously--"I knew Angela would keep us good friends." For a moment Gordon said nothing.

Then, at last-- "Yes, for that purpose it did n't matter which of us should marry her.
If it had been I," he added, "she would have made you accept it." "Ah, I don't know!" Bernard exclaimed.
"I am sure of it," said Gordon earnestly--almost argumentatively.

"She 's an extraordinary woman." "Keeping you good friends with me--that 's a great thing.

But it 's nothing to her keeping you good friends with your wife." Gordon looked at Bernard for an instant; then he fixed his eyes for some time on the fire.
"Yes, that is the greatest of all things.