"I'll leave you all the good ones, but I'll take the bad." "Well, that's handsome." He emphasised his sense of it by drawing her closer and holding her more tenderly.

"It's about all I could expect of you.

So far as you've wronged me, therefore, we'll call it square.

I'll let you know in time if I see a prospect of your having to take it up.
But am I to understand meanwhile," he soon went on, "that, ready as you are to see me through my collapse, you're not ready, or not AS ready, to see me through my resistance?
I've got to be a regular martyr before you'll be inspired ?" She demurred at his way of putting it.

"Why, if you like it, you know, it won't BE a collapse." "Then why talk about seeing me through at all?
I shall only collapse if I do like it.