"And you promise not to let him come in ?" she added, provisionally.
He promised and then suddenly she raised her head with a kind of jerk, as if possessed by a sudden, new spirit of determination.

Her eyes were streaming.

She looked straight into his face.

There was fire enough in her eyes to dry the tears.
"If--if you wish a thing you--you get--you get it," she gulped.

"Because I wished and wished to go away from that--that place--and now I made up my mind that we're going to--going to--make a lot of money for--for you--I just did." She did not say how they were going to do it..