I have been to all these places, wasted my time, wasted their time, from a purely selfish reason--to be near the only woman I have ever cared for, the woman, Grahame!" "I knew it," Grahame murmured.

"I fought against the belief, I thought that I had stifled it.

But I knew it all the time." "If I have seemed lukewarm sometimes of late," Brott said, "there is the cause.

She is an aristocrat, and my politics are hateful to her.

She has told me so seriously, playfully, angrily.