Then it's every man for himself ..." Maggie shook her head.
"I've always known that I'd have to manage for myself," she said.

"I've never expected any one to do anything for me, so I'm not likely to be disappointed now." He moved a little closer to her and held her hand more firmly; even as he did so something in his heart reproached him, but now the reproach was very far away, like an echo of some earlier voice.
"Do you know you're a wonderful girl ?" he said.

"I knew you were from the first moment I saw you.

You're the most independent person I've ever known.

You can't guess how I admire that! And all the same you're not happy, are you?
You want to get out of it, don't you ?" She thought for a little while before she nodded her head.
"I suppose as a fact." she said, "I do.