If a man can't win his fight fairly, he oughtn't to be in public life." After a few dark moments, with a sudden burst of feeling, Luzanne said: "Well, Carnac won't be out of public life through me!" She took the blue certificate from her breast and was about to tear it up, when Junia stopped her.
"Don't do that," Junia said, "don't tear it up yet, give it to me.

I'll tear it up at the right moment.

Give it to me, my dear." She held out her hand, and the blue certificate was presently in her fingers.

She felt a sudden weakness in her knees, for it seemed she held the career of Carnac Grier, and it moved her as she had never been moved.
With the yielding of the certificate, Luzanne seemed suddenly to lose self-control.

She sank on the bed beside the wall with a cry of distress.
"Mon Dieu--oh, Mon Dieu!" Then she sprang to her feet.