"
"Sink your spurs in me," he said doggedly; "it's funny when you really
think about it. Why, only a little while ago, if I had heard of a man
doing this, I would have beaten him up just on general principles:
running away from his wife and child, with another woman, an actress,
that's what it is! I tell myself that, but the words haven't a trace of
meaning or importance. Somehow, they don't seem to apply to me, to us;
they can say what they like, but Mina isn't wicked. She--she loves me,
Lee; and, suddenly, that swept everything else out of sight.
"But go back to me--you realize that I was rather in favor of what I
was, what I had. Brandenhouse is a good school and my crowd ran it. We
were pretty abrupt with boys who whored about; and, at Princeton, well,
we thought we were it. We were, still, there; and I got a heavy idea of
what I liked and was like. We were very damned honorable and the icing
on the cake generally. That was good after I left college, too; but
what's the use of going into it; I was in the same old Brandenhouse
surrounding. The war split us wide open. Or I thought it did; but, Lee,
by God, I don't believe it changed a thing. I got my touch of
concussion early, Ira was born, and, and--"
"Disaster," Lee Randon pronounced shortly.
"Call it that if you choose; there isn't much use in calling it at all:
it simply is."
"With someone else, yes; but with you, no, not finally; you haven't the
character and disposition to get away with it.
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