If I lose, I lose everything--even myself.

And if I win the game, will it be worth its cost after all?
I do not know.

Sometimes I doubt.

Sometimes I half wish I had not begun.

But no matter; I have begun, and I will never turn back; never while I live." Mr.Buckstone indulged in a reverie as he walked homeward: "She is shrewd and deep, and plays her cards with considerable discretion--but she will lose, for all that.