"This loafing life of just-enough-to-live-on doesn't give you a chance to play the man.

Go out and fight and colonize and prove your qualities." Lambert's color rose again, and his eyes sparkled.

"I would if the chance--" "Ah, bah, Hercules and Omphale!" interrupted his companion.
"What do you mean ?" "Never mind," retorted Miss Greeby, who guessed that he knew what she meant very well.

His quick flush showed her how he resented this classical allusion to Agnes Pine.

"You'd carry her off if you were a man." "Chaldea ?" asked Lambert, wilfully misunderstanding her meaning.
"If you like.