He was one of the few men--daily growing fewer--who hold that a woman's love is not a thing to be tossed lightly about in conversation.
"Then--" he began, speaking rather quickly, as if afraid that Steinmetz was going to say more.

"If," he amended, "you think she will find out, she must not see me, that is all." Steinmetz reflected again.

He was unusually grave over this matter.

One would scarcely have taken this stout German for a person of any sentiment whatever.

Nevertheless he would have liked Paul to marry Catrina Lanovitch in preference to Etta Sydney Bamborough, merely because he thought that the former loved him, while he felt sure that the latter did not.