"Putting aside what may really hurt HIM." But her friend looked at her as if he had thought of that too.

"The question will come up, of course, of the future that you yourself offer him." She was leaning back now, but she fully faced him.

"Well, let it come up!" "The point is that it's for Chad to make of it what he can.

His being proof against marriage will show what he does make." "If he IS proof, yes"-- she accepted the proposition.

"But for myself," she added, "the question is what YOU make." "Ah I make nothing.