21/27 And women are fools to believe him one. Why, Duane, he's every inch a man--high-minded, sensitive, proud, generous, forbearing." Duane turned and stared at her; and to her annoyance the blood mounted to her cheeks, but she went on: "Of course he has affected me. I don't know how it might have been with me if I were not so--so utterly starved." "You mean to say you are beginning to care for Delancy Grandcourt ?" "Care? I am honest with you, Duane; I don't know. A--a little devotion of that kind"-- she tried to laugh--"goes to my head, perhaps. |