I don't like to see you letting success and--and all the rest of it pass you by, when other men, not so overscrupulous, do succeed.
Don't you care for success?
Or for money ?" John interrupted her.

He leaned forward and spoke, deliberately but firmly.

And he looked her straight in the face.
"I do," he said.

"I care for both--now--more than I ever thought I could care." And, all at once, the young lady seemed to remember that her cousin and the captain were in the room.

She colored, and when she spoke it was in a different tone.
"Then," she said, "it seems to me, if I were you, I should accept the opportunities that came in my way.