Won't you stop that unsocial tramp of yours long enough to give us your opinion on the subject ?" A moment's silence followed, and then a singularly clear voice, coming from the forward part of the yacht, replied: "I never read them, Mr.
Pierce." Mr.Pierce laughed quietly.

"See," he said, "that fellow never dreams of there being romance outside of novels.

He is so prosaic that he is unconscious of anything bigger than his own little sphere of life.

Peter may obtain what he wants in this world, for his desires will be of the kind to be won by work and money.

But he will never be controlled by a great idea, nor be the hero of a true romance." Steele once wrote that the only difference between the Catholic Church and the Church of England was, that the former was infallible and the latter never wrong.