12/22 It will be your ruin, that you have been honest!" Calhoun turned on him swiftly. "You know as well as I that mere politics will not serve. It will take some extraordinary measure--you know men--and, perhaps, _women_." "Yes," said Doctor Ward, "and a precious silly lot: they are; the two running after each other and forgetting each other; using and wasting each other; ruining and despoiling each other, all the years, from Troy to Rome! But yes! For a man, set a woman for a trap. _Vice versa_, I suppose ?" Calhoun nodded, with a thin smile. |