42/87 "If you do me so much justice then, why did you put to me such a cold cruel question ?--I mean when you so oddly challenged me on my handing on your news to Mitchy. If the principal beauty of our effort to live together is--and quite according to your own eloquence--in our sincerity, I simply obeyed the impulse to do the sincere thing. If we're not sincere we're nothing." "Nothing!"-- it was Mitchy who first responded. "But we ARE sincere." "Yes, we ARE sincere," Vanderbank presently said. "It's a great chance for us not to fall below ourselves: no doubt therefore we shall continue to soar and sing. |