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But for all this the
Dean did not give up Quisante; for all this he and Dick Benyon clung to
their scheme and to the man who was to carry it out. In her urgent desire
for guidance she took the Dean for a walk and tried to draw out his
innermost opinions. He showed some surprise at her interest.
"He's the last man I should have thought you'd care to know about, Lady
May," he said.
"That can be only because you think me stupid," she retorted, smiling.
"No! But I thought you'd be stopped _in limine_--on the threshold, you
know."
"I see the threshold; and, yes, I don't like it. But tell me about the
house too."
"I've not seen it all," smiled the Dean. "Well, to drop our metaphor, I
think Mr. Quisante has a wonderfully acute intellect."
"Oh, yes, yes."
"And hardly a wonderfully, but a rather noticeably, blunt conscience.
Many men have, you'll say, I know. But most of the men we meet have
substitutes."
"Substitutes for conscience?" May laughed reprovingly at her companion.
"Taste, tradition, the rules of society, what young men call 'good
form.


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