"I have already accepted the fellow's challenge." "And what of that ?" she cried.

"Would you cling to a barren point of honor in despite of love ?" "Even so," he said, and sighed.
"Oh, Clement," she said, "I cannot bear it! I cannot bear to lose you! I always knew you were in the world somewhere--and now that I have found you it is only to give you up! It is too much!" Cleggett was silent for a moment.

When he spoke it was slowly and gently, but earnestly.
"No point of honor is a barren one, dear," he said.

"What the man lying there may be matters nothing.

It is not to him that I have given my word, but to myself.