She understood the courage his renunciation had required.

That seemed to be what she cared for most.
At length he said to her: "Now I must go and get this off my chest with the firm.

Go home, and I'll come as soon as ever I can." But here she shook her head.
"I couldn't go home," she answered.

"It might all come out before you arrived, and I could not listen to things that"-- she avoided naming her mother--"that will be said about you, Pete.

Isn't there somewhere I can wait while you have your interview ?" There was the outer office of Honaton & Benson.