At any rate I know that you'll think about what I've said to-day." "I won't," she declared.
"You will," said he.

And then he dropped a very buttery piece of buttered toast on the carpet and, picking it up, said "damn" under his breath; and then they both laughed, and Zora found him human.
"Why are you so bent on educating me ?" she asked.
"Because," said he, "I am one of the few men of your acquaintance who doesn't want to marry you." "Indeed ?" said Zora sarcastically, yet hating herself for feeling a little pang of displeasure.

"May I ask why ?" "Because," said he, "I've a wife and five children already." * * * * * On the top of her matchmaking and her reflections on Truth in the guise of the Veiled Prophet of Khorasan, came Clem Sypher to take possession of his new house.

Since Zora had seen him in Monte Carlo he had been to New York, Chicago, and San Francisco, fighting the Jebusa Jones dragon in its lair.
He had written Zora stout dispatches during the campaign.

Here a victory.
There a defeat.