CHAPTER SIX‘And yet the hopes of man,’ Silva quoted, ‘now ride high, now sink low, clearing the way through seas of false illusion.’
“I don’t believe they clear the way,” the Marquis commented.
“If Pindar said so,” Silva insisted, “it must be true.”
“He also said, if I am not mistaken,” the Marquis said, ‘For no man born on earth has ever yet found a trustworthy sign from Heaven above’.”
Silva made a helpless gesture.
“You take what is exciting out of everything,” she said. “I shall refuse to argue with you anymore.”
“Think how boring it would be if I agreed with you every time,” the Marquis pointed out and Silva laughed.
They had been arguing at every meal and at other times of the day when they were sitting on deck.
The Marquis thought it quite extraordinary that any young woman
