She observed also that she wished to see Dominic some day; to set her eyes for once on a man who could be absolutely depended on.

She wanted to know whether he had engaged himself in this adventure solely for my sake.
I said that no doubt it was partly that.

We had been very close associates in the West Indies from where we had returned together, and he had a notion that I could be depended on, too.

But mainly, I suppose, it was from taste.

And there was in him also a fine carelessness as to what he did and a love of venturesome enterprise.
"And you," she said.