consider, he DOESN'T choose! If he had YOU, he'd change his opinion.
Seaton's not the man to have a wife without keeping her in comfort.
I tell you again, you can be the making of him. You can save his
life!"

She clasped her hands nervously. A little gasping sigh came from her
lips.

"Oh!--Santa Madonna!--to save his life!"

"Ah, just that!" said Gwent impressively--"Think of it! I'm not
speaking lies--that's not my way. The man is making for himself what
we in the European war called a 'danger zone,' where everybody not
'in the know' was warned off hidden mines. Hidden mines! He's got
them! That's so! You can take my word! It's no good looking for
them, no one will ever find them but himself, and he thinks of
nothing else. But if he fell in love with YOU---"

She gave a hopeless gesture.

"He will not--he thinks nothing of me--nothing!--no!--though he says
I am beautiful!"

"Oh, he says that, does he?" and Gwent smiled--"Well, he'd be a fool
if he didn't!"

"Ah, but he does not care for beauty!" Manella went on. "He sees it
and he smiles at it, but it does not move him!"

Gwent looked at her in perplexity, not knowing quite how to deal