"Oh, if you were only married and settled down!"

"You mean, if I were happily married and settled down. There you have
it. I'm in search of happiness. That's the Valley of Diamonds. When
I find that, Martha, you may fold your hands in peace."

"Grant it may be soon! I hate the East!

"And I have just begun to love it."




V

BACK TO LIFE

The two days between Prome and Rangoon were distinctly memorable for
the subtle changes wrought in the man and woman. Those graces of mind
and manner which had once been the man's, began to find expression.
Physically, his voice became soft and mellow; his hands became full of
emphasis; his body grew less and less clumsy, more and more leonine.
It has taken centuries and centuries to make the white man what he is
to-day; yet, a single year of misfortune may throw him back into the
primordial. For it is far easier to retrograde than to go forward,
easier to let the world go by than to march along with it. Had he been
less interested in Elsa and more concerned about his rehabilitation,
self-analysis would have astonished Warrington. The blunt speech, the
irritability in argument, the stupid pauses, the painful study of