There is much at stake." "You want it for your own sake," said Luzanne sharply.

"You think he'd marry you if I gave him up." "Perhaps he'd ask me to marry him, if you weren't in the way, but I'd have my own mind about that, and knowing what you've told me--truth or lie--I'd weigh it all carefully.

Besides, he's not the only man.

Doesn't that ever strike you?
Why try to hold him by a spurious bond when there are other men as good-looking, as clever?
Is your world so bare of men--no, I'm sure it isn't," she added, for she saw anger rising in the impulsive girl.

"There are many who'd want to marry you, and it's better to marry some one who loves you than to hold to one who doesn't love you at all.