But if you are going to be my friend--" "Well ?" "If you are going to be my friend," he went on, with almost inspired conviction, "I shall write something different." "One can rebuild," she murmured.

"One can sometimes use the old pieces.
Life and chess are both like that." "Would you help me, I wonder ?" he asked impulsively.
She looked away from him, out across the steamer rail.

She seemed to be measuring with her eyes the roll of the ship as it rose and fell in the trough of the sea.
"You are a strange person," she said.

"Tell me, are you in the habit of becoming suddenly dependent upon people ?" "Not I," he assured her.

"If I were to tell you how my last ten years have been spent, you would not believe me.