"You know very well we can't live like decent people on twelve or fifteen thousand a year in Washington." "You knew that before you married me.

What did you have in mind ?" Silence.
"Why do you find it difficult to be frank with me ?" His courteous, appealing tone and manner made it impossible to indulge in the lie direct or the lie evasive.

She continued silent, raging inwardly against him for being so ungenerous, so ungentlemanly as to put her in such a pitiful posture, one vastly different from that she had prearranged for herself when "the proper time" came.
"You had something in mind," he persisted.

"What is it ?" "Grandmother wishes us to live with her," she said with intent to flank.
"Would you like that ?" he inquired; and her very heart seemed to stand still in horror at his tone.

It was a tone that suggested that the idea was attractive! She debated.