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Astute as he was, he did not suspect that Christine was using thisfor Sidney Perhaps she hardly knew it herself

"You ht marry her yourself, K"

But he had hi from

either his voice or his eyes

"On twenty dollars a week? And without so ht tone "I'm not in a position to marry anybody Even if

Sidney cared for me, which she doesn't, of course--"

"Then you don't intend to interfere? You're going to let the Street see

another failure?"

"I think you can understand," said K rather wearily, "that if I cared

less, Christine, it would be easier to interfere"

After all, Christine had known this, or surmised it, for weeks But it hurt

like a fresh stab in an old wound It was K who spoke again after a

pause:-"The deadly hard thing, of course, is to sit by and see things happening

that one--that one would naturally try to prevent"

"I don't believe that you have always been of those who only stand and