"My only fear is that he will count me an unfriendly person and refuse to have anything to do with me." "I am not at all sure," she said indifferently, "that it would not be very much better for you if he did." "I cannot admit that," he answered, smiling.

"I think that our paths in life are too far apart for either of us to influence the other.

You don't share his tastes, do you ?" "Which ones ?" she asked, after a moment's silence.
"Well, boxing for one," he replied.

"They tell me that he is the greatest living patron of the ring, both here and in America." "I have never been to a fight in my life," she confessed.

"I hope that I never may." "I can't go so far as that," he declared, "but boxing isn't altogether one of my hobbies.