CHAPTER I
"Oh, but the door that waits a friend Swings open to the day. There stood no warder at my gate To bid love stand or stay."
"You don't believe in marriage, and I can't afford to marry"—Gilbert Stanning laughed, but the sound was not very mirthful and his eyes, as he glanced at his companion, were uneasy and not quite honest. "We are the right sort of people to drift together, aren't we,...
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