54/54 I have nobody to see unless I see them--nowhere to go unless I go where they ask me.... So I thought I'd ask you to let me depend a little on you, sometimes--as a refuge from isolation and morbid thinking now and then. And from other mischief--for which I apparently have a capacity--to judge by what I've done--and what I've let men do already." She laid her hand lightly on his arm in sudden and impulsive confidence: "That's my 'thorough talk.' I haven't any one else to tell it to. And I've told you the worst." She smiled at him adorably: "And now I am ready to go out with you," she said,--"go anywhere in the world with you, Kelly. And I am going to be perfectly happy--if you are.". |