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"Doesn't every one?"
He laughed shortly. "Ah, you know better than that!"
"Well, my father does. He says that it is your sincerity that makes you
resemble me."
To her surprise he did not laugh at this. "Do I resemble you?" he asked
simply.
"Father thinks so. He says that people won't take us seriously because
we tell them the truth."
An impression drifted like smoke across the blue of his eyes. Who was
it, she wondered, who had said that his eyes were gray? "Don't they take
you seriously?" he asked.
"As a woman, yes. As a human being, no."
He smiled. "You are too deep. I can't follow. I understand only the
plain bright ideas of the half educated, you know."
Her brilliant glance shone on him steadily. "I shan't try to explain.
What one doesn't understand without an explanation isn't worth knowing.
But somebody must take you seriously, or you wouldn't be where you are."
"Do you know where I am?" he demanded impulsively.
"I know that you are Governor of Virginia.


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