"But suppose one isn't after any of those things," he said.
"Suppose he thinks of life as simply an opportunity for
self-development. He starts at it when he's born, and the more
of it he does the more he has to do. And--he can't possibly
fail, and every moment is a triumph--and----" He came back from
his excursion and smiled apologetically at her.

But she was evidently interested.

"Don't you think a man ought to have ambition?" she asked. She
was thinking of her lover and his audacious schemes for making
himself powerful.

"Oh--a man is what he is. Ambition means so many different
things."

"But shouldn't you like to be rich and famous and--all that?"

"It depends----" Scarborough felt that if he said what was in
his mind it might sound like cant. So he changed the subject.
"Just now my ambition is to get off that zoology condition."



IV.

A DUMONT TRIUMPH.


But in the first week of her second month Pauline's interest in