How should I know ?" "Do you think it likely ?" "Is that a fair question ?" asked Morewood.
"Perfectly," said Eugene, with an expressionless face.

"But it's one I have no means of answering." "He's plucky," thought Ayre.

"Would you give the same answer you gave just now if you thought she'd take him ?" It was certainly hard on Eugene.

Was he bound, against even a tolerably strong feeling of his own, to give Stafford every chance?
It is not fair to a man to make him a judge where he is in truth a party.

Ayre had no mercy for him.
"For the sake of a trumpery pledge is he to throw away his own happiness--and mark you, Lane, perhaps hers ?" Eugene did not wince.
"If there's a chance of success, he ought to be given the opportunity of exercising his own judgment," he said quietly.