"That's true enough. Unless it be to take you in his arms and press you to his heart, he wants to do nothing to you. Do you think he'd injure you if he could? You don't know what a man's love really means, Ruby. But he could do something to somebody else. How do you think it would be with Felix Carbury, if they two were in a room together and nobody else by?"
"John's mortial strong, Mr. Carbury."
"If two men have equal pluck, strength isn't much needed. One is a brave man, and the other--a coward. Which do you think is which?"

"That's true enough. Unless it be to take you in his arms, he wants to do nothing to you. Do you think he'd injure you? You don't know what a man's love really means, Ruby. But he could do something to somebody else. How do you think it would be with Felix Carbury, if they two met?"
"John's mortal strong."
"One is a brave man, and the other a coward. 