"Yes, if you mean that I'd pay rather than lose you." And then there came again what this had made him say.

"Don't talk about ME--it's you who are not of this age.

You're a creature of a braver and finer one, and the cinquecento, at its most golden hour, wouldn't have been ashamed of you.

It would of me, and if I didn't know some of the pieces your father has acquired, I should rather fear, for American City, the criticism of experts.

Would it at all events be your idea," he had then just ruefully asked, "to send me there for safety ?" "Well, we may have to come to it." "I'll go anywhere you want." "We must see first--it will be only if we have to come to it.