I suppose they are very much in love with each other ?" Wickersham gave a short laugh.

"In love with Norman! Women don't fall in love with a lump of ice." "I do not think he is a lump of ice," said Keith, firmly.
Wickersham did not answer at first, then he said sharply: "Well, she's worth a thousand of him.

She married him for his money.
Certainly not for his brains." "Norman has brains--as much as any one I know," defended Keith.
"You think so!" Keith remembered a certain five minutes out behind the stables at Elphinstone.
He wanted to ask Wickersham about another girl who was uppermost in his thoughts, but something restrained him.

He could not bear to hear her name on his lips.

By a curious coincidence, Wickersham suddenly said: "You used to teach at old Rawson's.