understand why, sir. I only want to tell you that her objections
are not objections to me. She is Jane and I love her, sir, because
she is."

"I hope you can win her over, Graydon. She seems determined,
however, and she is unhappy. You can't blame her, either. If there
were base or common blood in her, it wouldn't make much difference
to her pride. But she's made of other material. She's serious about
it and I am sensible enough to get her point of view. She wouldn't
want to marry you with the prospect of an eternal shadow that
neither of you could get off of your minds. I sometimes wish that
I knew who were her parents."

"It doesn't matter, so far as I am concerned."

"I know, my boy, but she is thinking of the heritage that comes
down from her mother to her. You'll never know how it hurt me to
find that I had no daughter. It hurts her worse a thousandfold to
learn that she has no mother. I trust it may not happen that you
will lose her as a wife."

"If I really thought I couldn't win her, sir, it would ruin my
ambition in life. She loves me, I'm sure."

"By the way, Clegg tells me he has offered you the New York office.
It is a splendid chance for you. You will take it, of course."

"I expect to talk it over with Mr. Clegg when I get to Chicago."

"Come up to our apartments. Oh, pardon me, Graydon, I want to ask