He loves money because he loves power, and he loves power more than his fellow man." Ryder laughed uneasily.

Decidedly, this girl had opinions of her own which she was not backward to express.
"Isn't that rather strong ?" he asked.
"I don't think so," replied Shirley.

Then quickly she asked: "But what does it matter?
No such man exists." "No, of course not," said Ryder, and he relapsed into silence.
Yet while he said nothing, the plutocrat was watching his visitor closely from under his thick eyebrows.

She seemed supremely unconscious of his scrutiny.

Her aristocratic, thoughtful face gave no sign that any ulterior motive had actuated her evidently very hostile attitude against him.