16/19 All your pretty things and the way you live--it would be like a cage to me. I like my life the way it is; but yours--" "Do you think I would ask Wilsey to dinner every night or try to mold you to be like Mrs.Baxter ?" She laughed. I never could have married again. I'd make you a poor wife, but I'm a wonderful friend." "Your friendship would be more happiness than I had any right to hope for," and then he added in a less satisfied tone: "But friendship is so uncertain. You don't make any announcements to your friends or vows to each other, unless you're at an age when you cut your initials in the bark of a tree. |