"What will you do if--if you find you're not--happy with me ?" "I'll take my chance of that," said Fletcher Hill.

He added, under his breath, "I'll be good to you--in any case." That moved her.

She lifted her face impulsively.

"You--you are much nicer than I thought you were," she said.
He bent to her.

"It isn't very difficult to be that," he said, with a somewhat sardonic touch of humour.